From beginning to end, from end to beginning: an hacktivist and queer exhibition by Marion Schneider at Galerie de l’UQAM
Dates: February 14 – March 29, 2025
Opening: Thursday, February 13, 5:30 p.m.
Montréal, January 30, 2025 – Galerie de l’UQAM welcomes From beginning to end, from end to beginning, an exhibition by Marion Schneider, a graduating master’s student in Visual and Media Arts at UQAM. The project focuses on the poetic and political potential of technological tools fostering a queer and ecological perspective.
The exhibition
From beginning to end, from end to beginning invites us to pause, take a breath, and inhabit the unease of our shared ecological condition. Emerging from a process of hacktivist and queer research-creation, the installation explores the potential of digital art through an ecological lens. The work envisions a world beyond binaries, where blending, hybridity, and transformation take shape.
Set against an ambient and melancholic soundscape composed by the artist, the exhibition introduces two sensitive machines, crafted from repurposed technological objects, curved steel rods, and 3D-printed elements. One appears as a ChatGPT robot, offering hourly apologies to a rock in the form of real-time poems. The other, inspired by the design of an IV pole, invites visitors to trigger its tears, watering a nearby plant.
The installation immerses visitors in warm light and a soundscape that slow down the perception of time. Within this immersive sensory environment, sadness and calm coexist, fostering an intimate experience that is both reflective and participatory. Marion Schneider weaves narratives in which plants, minerals, and humans intersect, imagining new forms of cohabitation and offering a poetic gesture of repair for the world.
The artist
Marion Schneider is a non-binary digital artist currently pursuing a master’s degree in visual and media arts at UQAM (Montréal) and a graduate in Digital Design from École nationale supérieure Olivier de Serres (Paris). Their work has been exhibited in Montréal and Québec, including at MUTEK, ICRA-X, Place des Arts, Art Mûr, and Galerie de l’UQAM. They have received several awards, including a SSHRC research grant for their master’s, UQAM’s honor mention for their bachelor’s degree, the McAbbie Foundation Excellence Scholarship, and the Jean-Pitre and Claude Leclerc Prize.
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Public activities
Nuit blanche à Montréal
Saturday, March 1st, 2025
7 p.m. – midnight
Galerie de l’UQAM
Free admission
Make the most of Montréal’s Nuit blanche by visiting exhibitions Tino Sehgal. This situation and Marion Schneider. From beginning to end, from end to beginning at Galerie de l’UQAM. We are extending our opening hours as part of this nocturnal event.
Artist Talk: Marion Schneider
As part of the L’art observe series
Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Galerie de l’UQAM
In French and English
Free admission
Galerie de l’UQAM invites you to a presentation by Marion Schneider, graduating master’s student in Visual and Media Arts. The artist will discuss their artistic approach as well as research undertaken during their academic career, in an atmosphere conducive to exchange. It will be an opportunity for Marion Schneider to reveal the processes and ideas that underlie the exhibition.
Educational program
Our mediators look forward to taking you and your group on guided tours of Marion Schneider. From beginning to end, from end to beginning. The tours are flexible and open to all school and community groups. The content can be adapted to meet your particular needs and to complement material covered in the classroom. These activities are available free of charge, in French or English, or with an interpreter in American Sign Language (ASL) or Langue des signes québécoise (LSQ).
- more information: galerie.uqam.ca/en/educational-program/
Reservation required:
Léa Lanthier-Lapierre
Cultural Mediation and Communications Coordinator, Galerie de l’UQAM
lanthier-lapierre.lea@uqam.ca
514 987-3000 ext. 20959
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Address and opening hours
Galerie de l’UQAM
Judith-Jasmin Pavilion, Room J-R120
1400 Berri, corner of Sainte-Catherine East, Montréal
Berri-UQAM Metro
Tuesday ¬– Saturday, 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Free admission
Information
Phone: 514 987-6150
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