Fall 2015 Program at the Galerie de l’UQAM
July 7, 2015 – This fall, the Galerie de l’UQAM will present an intriguing mix of exhibitions: the hyperrealist mutations and monsters of Australian Patricia Piccinini during the Mois de la Photo; video canvases by Anne-Renée Hotte exploring the global community; objects by Hank Bull revealing the networks of relationships between artists; and a critical reflection by Louis Bouvier on the attribution of value to art.
September 1 to October 10, 2015
Opening: Friday, September 11, 7 p.m.
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Patricia Piccinini. Another Life
Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal
The Post-Photographic Condition
Guest Curator: Joan FontcubertaLe Mois de la Photo à Montréal presents, in partnership with the Galerie de l’UQAM, Another Life, Patricia Piccinini’s first solo exhibition presented in Canada. On a planet that has been invaded, not by green aliens but by images, Patricia Piccinini questions our future as humans. And in doing so, she avoids the monstrous image to concentrate on the image of the monster. Using photography, video and sculpture, Piccinini parodies monstrosity and demonstrativeness as a kind of apocalyptic precursor. In her surprising and captivating universe, forms drawn from biology and aesthetics seesaw between Frankenstein and Walt Disney, Pixar and H. R. Giger, and The Island of Dr. Moreau and Dolly the sheep. Her work reminds us that life increasingly pushes the boundaries of nature, resulting in implants, in vitro fertilization, cloning, biotechnology, mutations… In short, genetic tinkering. Another Life conveys a sense of fascination and horror of the monstrous when it permeates everyday life, as an embodiment of the Freudian uncanny.
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Anne-Renée Hotte. L’Ordre Naturel [The Natural Order]
Graduating MFA student in Visual and Media Arts, UQAML’Ordre Naturel is an installation of video canvases whose cadence is created through a symbiosis of landscapes and human activity. Orchestrated to create a rhythmic progression, through the alternation and juxtaposition of images and their soundtrack, the scenes projected in the gallery space explore the concept of a global community through a diversity of harmonious and dissonant elements. Uniting these sequences is a disjointed symphony that combines irregular breathing with the soft rustle of leaves.
October 23 to December 5, 2015
Opening: Thursday, October 22, 5:30 p.m.
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Hank Bull. Connexion
Curators: Joni Low et Pan Wendt
Exhibition and tour organized by the Confederation Art Centre, Charlottetown, Prince-Edward-IslandSince the 1970s, Vancouver-based multimedia artist Hank Bull has acted as a connecting figure between artists and artistic communities internationally. Inspired initially by experimental music, mail art, Fluxus, and the absurdist performances associated with Dada and pataphysics, much of his practice has been ephemeral and dialogic, produced for underground audiences in artist-run and improvised contexts. Performance, communication, and the building of networks have thus often eclipsed the production of material things. Yet, material things have played an important role in his career – as documents, as vehicles of communication, as props, and as aesthetic objects in their own right. Hank Bull: Connexion considers the material traces of a life lived as art, exhibiting the varied collection of the artist as a sculptural installation. Presented in varying states of order and chaos, this diverse array of things – performance props, photographs, videos, documents, technology – points to a network of relationships with artists and communities around the world. It embodies a collaborative practice that has consistently embraced juxtaposition and exchange across boundaries – whether geographic, temporal, cultural, political, disciplinary or psychic.
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Louis Bouvier. TOUT n’est pas un sandwich [ALL is not a sandwich]
Graduating MFA student in Visual and Media Arts, UQAMWith his exhibition TOUT n’est pas un sandwich, Louis Bouvier focuses on the discursive potential arising from encounters between various « art » objects. By juxtaposing eras, cultures and ideas, he incites us to question traditional prejudices regarding the artist’s craft. Within the gallery space, photorealistic drawings are displayed alongside sculptures and found objects. The nature of the artistic testimony in these works is lost in a profusion of forms and materials, calling into question the precious, sacred and oracular attributes of artistic creation. By mobilizing the conventional codes of exhibitions, TOUT n’est pas un sandwich creates a paradoxical space that undermines – with a degree of irony –modernist ideas of the status of the work of art.
Touring exhibitions
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Videozoom. Between-the-Images
Sophie Bélair Clément, Olivia Boudreau, Jacynthe Carrier, Michel de Broin, Frédéric Lavoie, Pascal Grandmaison, Aude Moreau
Curator: La Fabrique d’expositionsLa Maison folie, Mons, Belgium
September 17 to 27, 2015 / Opening: Thursday, September 17Videozoom: Between-the-Images presents a videographic compilation of works from Quebec artists who define themselves neither as video artists nor filmmakers, but as visual artists fuelled by the exploration of the moving image. The exhibition reflects shared sensibilities, shows affinity for carefully executed images, demonstrates attention to the presence of sound, and reveals the effective and elliptical strategies inherent in image making. These short videos feature a variety of subjects ranging from politics, pop culture, to the filmic and televisual imaginary, as well poetically charged images.
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Aude Moreau. The Political Nightfall
Curator: Louise DéryCentre culturel canadien, Paris
September 25, 2015 to January 13, 2016 / Opening: Thursday, September 24The Power Plant, Toronto
January 22 to May 23, 2016Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
September 24, 2016 to January 8, 2017After its great success at the Galerie de l’UQAM this past spring, Aude Moreau. The Political Nightfall, the first major solo show of the artist, begins a tour that will bring her to Paris, Luxembourg and Toronto. This exhibition features a body of work developed by the artist over the last 7 years, with night-time panoramas of cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Montreal and Toronto. The photographic, film and sound works of Aude Moreau cast a hitherto unexampled light on the North American city, with its modernist grid, its towers soaring to breathtaking heights, its illuminated logos speaking the language of the multinationals, its solids that box us in, its voids that provide an exit.
Online exhibition
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The Painting Project
A Snapshot of Painting in Canada
Curator: Julie Bélisle
Produced by the Galerie de l’UQAM and exhibited online at the Virtual Museum of Canada
www.leprojetpeinture.uqam.caPresented as part of the Virtual Museum of Canada, an initiative of Canadian Heritage, The Painting Project includes sixty works by as many artists. Supported by extensive research, it sketches the outlines of current artistic practice in Canada and provides insightful commentary.
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