CYNTHIA GIRARD
Through painting, installation and performance, Cynthia Girard takes her reflection on the pictorial space and its distortion. She builds dysfunctional worlds confronting an imaginary world delusional to the bigoted reality of every day.
VALÉRIE BLASS
Valérie Blass attempts to create tensions and dialogues between forms, mediums and art history semantics. Her work questions the boundaries between figuration and abstraction.
STEPHEN SCHOFIELD
The subject of Stephen Schofield’s work is the strangeness, humour and erotics of ordinary experience. The materials and procedures he uses to make them spring from the laboratories of the home: the kitchen, the bathroom and the garden.
DUKE & BATTERSBY
Duke and Battersby’s low-tech, funny, smart and irreverent work combines song, video clips and animation, to portray a sublime and abject world. Occupying both rooms of the gallery, are taxidermied animals in colourful costumes.
JEAN-PIERRE GAUTHIER
With humor and poetry, Jean-Pierre Gauthier creates kinetic and sound installations that refer to chaos, convolutions and unpredictability.
Manuela Lalic
Through installation and performance, Manuela Lalic seeks a tension between what is individual and what is collective. She performs on constructs stagings who question our mass movements while indicating her ecological concerns.
STÉPHANE GILOT
With his installations, videos, performances, drawings and models, Stéphane Gilot tries to redefine our relationship with space by using hybrid construtions and imaginary spaces in which the public is invited to take part in an inventory of situations.
JEAN-PHILIPPE ROY
Jean-Philippe Roy is interested in notion of the sacred and the paradox of a sculpture embodying this idea. While the sacred suggests a universal communion aroud the divine idea, the sculpture remains anchored in the immediate.
VÉRONIQUE CHAGNON-CÔTÉ
The spaces build by Véronique Chagnon-Côté recall certain traditional notions of painting by their drawing lines perpective. However, she retains abstraction techniques such as flat tint, pattern and hard-edge cutting to explore painting materiality.
ISABELLE HAYEUR
Isabelle Hayeur is concerned about the environment, the urban development and the social conditions. Through photography and video, she questions the ambivalence of our relationship to the changing world.
Studio views
Ten artists have been invited to talk about their artistic approaches in the context of their studios. Experience the pulse of their practice. Understand the artist's relationship with their creative process, with their work and production context.
JANA WINDEREN
As part of Energy Field, Jana Winderen hosts a workshop on the St-Laurence River, working with underwater noises. The Norwegian artist is known for her work on sound caption in undergrounds and in deep waters.
Jana Winderen's work reveals the complexity and strangeness of the oceanic sound universe, an area often overlooked by the scientific community. Through blind sound recording, the artist creates auditory experiences that would be difficult – if not impossible – to achieve.
CATHERINE BÉCHARD and SABIN HUDON
Catherine Béchard and Sabin Hudon’s works diverge familiar shapes by the incorporation of mechanical movements or the production of unexpected sounds. The objects used in the installation, refer to experiences or cultural knowledge, evoking specific images.
ÉVA CHATIGNY
The creations of Éva Chatigny reveal the architectural patterns specific to the urban landscapes. Connected together, the objects come together like variations of the same theme. Due to their appearance, arrangement and scale, objects are like furniture or models.
JENNIFER CAMPBELL
Jennifer Campbell’s artistic practice engages her in actions that she documents through photography or videography. The five works depict the artist in action on a natural site with interventions that suddenly and radically disrupt and transform the site.
ZIPERTATOU
zipertatou shares these worlds that he imagines with their space, time, characters and the story in which they are the protagonists. In Top Manatavo, tissue boxes fly, what resembles a swollen wing comes out of the opening where one usually pulls the tissues.
OLIVIA BOUDREAU
Olivia Boudreau’s work is remarkable for having combined the respective temporalities of performance and videography. She starts from the sequence-shot, the isochrony between the filmed time, the point of view, the time that the video is watched later.
LISE BOISSEAU
Lise Boisseau avoids the stretcher and colours and chooses to work with ink on paper (particularly film paper), employing Chinese calligraphy techniques.The choice of such a mode of tracing, fragments the painted surface into a multitude of marks.
Pour l'art
Every year, Galerie B-312 invites you to support the activities of the centre by acquiring a work of art. Thus, you directly support the dissemination, recognition and the impact of current artistic practices.
Aston Coles—Emi Honda—Tor Jørgen van Eijk—Brian MacDonald
Brian MacDonald asked three artists to create an artwork knowing that they would be part of an installation with a troubling dilemma: the works of art would only be an instant of respite in the face of the nuisances of the everyday life ?
ERIKA LINCOLN
In Free Space Loss, Erika Lincoln works to reconstruct, in a very homemade way, what might seem to be the necessary conditions that would allow us to experience virtual reality. Virtual reality is a reality that exists only through our senses.
DAVID M.C. MILLER
David M.C. Miller does not subject just anything to this process of erasure or fragmentation, only the face, image par excellence of others, a subject in its own right, unique and singular, whole and indivisible.
KAREN CAMPBELL AND ROBBIN DEYO
Both artists employ a writing system that have become their drawing instrument: Campbell writes freehand or with a stamp while Deyo uses the countless possibilities of the spirograph.
GWEN MACGREGOR and SANDRA RECHICO
Works gathered in Maps in Doubt exhibition are the result of a superposition or a juxtaposition of the rewriting journey of the two artists in different cities to deconstruct the spaces geography as we know it and use it.
PAVITRA WICKRAMASINGHE
In Refusing to make a scene, Pavitra Wickramasinghe presents her work on the upheaval in the domain of the constitution of images from the moment the cinema introduces a radical change of structure in this field.
vida simon
This performance is inspired by a child’s suit. This found object, belonging to another era, appears to be a shrunken version of a grown up’s clothing. Not knowing the clothing’s specific history allows for a continual projection of possible scenarios.
ARTI GRABOWSKI—JOANNE BRISTOL—MARIE-ANDRÉE RHO—MILOS TOMIC—NOÉMI MCCOMBER—PAUL LEYTON—COLLETTE NOLAN—MONIQUE MOUMBLOW
This selection of films and videos highlights performative works that seek out this instability by embodying, sharing or giving up control to either animal or child.
DAVID NAYLOR
To be all things brings together David Naylor's sculptures, which recall the furniture in our homes since they are made from armchairs, couches, loveseats, sofas or recamiers, of which the artist only keeps the structures as an armature.
SUZANNE JOLY
For three days Suzanne Joly will wander the streets of Montreal with a live chicken. The incongrous presence of a farm animal in the city undoubtedly raise questions about our experience of the lived moment, public propriety and of our understanding of territory.
DARREN O’DONNELL
Free Haircuts by Children is a whimsical performance that playfully engages with the enfranchisement of children, trust in the younger generation, and the thrills and chills of vanity.
VIDA SIMON
KUTLUG ATAMAN and ZINEB SEDIRA
With 1+1=1, Mother Tongue, Ataman and Sedira deal with the unpredictable impacts of acts as decisive as the borders erection and the desire to abolish them. This exhibition reveals the limits of constraining the photographic conception to a theory of the index sign.
MONIQUE MOUMBLOW
Monique Moumblow has five-year-old twin girls in the midst of learning language and social skills. Arko Preeka is a phrase made-up by the twins that had deep emotional meaning to the girls yet remained elusive to others.
Animaux et enfants—Animals and Children
Animals and Children is a series that brings together performances, videos and installations throughout the spring and fall of 2009. The artworks presented attempt to re-direct social behaviours and assumptions about human nature by playing with becoming other than human.
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Galerie B-312 is supported by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Conseil des arts de Montréal, the Canada Council for the Arts and the City of Montreal
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