New season: Galerie de l’UQAM unveils its 2022 fall program
August 2, 2022 – Galerie de l’UQAM’s 2022-2023 season is off to a strong start with a major fall program devoted to the dialogue between self and other, between speaking and listening, between territory and memory.
In September, the gallery begins its programming with two exhibitions drawing from the social upheavals of recent years. On the one hand, the group exhibition à corps perdu | sharing madness by independent curators Florence-Agathe Dubé-Moreau and Maude Johnson, both UQAM graduates and regular collaborators of the gallery, examines the unifying power of the moving body in the performing arts. On the other hand, caroline pierret pirson, a graduating Master’s student in Visual and Media Arts at UQAM, presents Plus jamais silencieuses, a documentary video installation created in response to the #metoo movement aiming to empower voices that have long been silenced.
As of October, Le septième pétale d’une tulipe-monstrebegins its journey through the Canadian Francophonie in Saint-Boniface, Manitoba. This group show is coproduced by La Maison des artistes visuels francophones, the Galerie d’art Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen and Galerie de l’UQAM, who will be presenting it in its spaces in November 2023. Curated by UQAM graduate and collaborator of the gallery Elise Anne LaPlante, the exhibition focuses on the concept of the mutating body as an act of self-definition and emancipation as it unfolds in the practices of feminist and queer artists.
In November, the public is invited to discover Spazio Disponibile, a major exhibition by Dawit L. Petros organized and circulated by The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery (Toronto) and curated by Irene Campolmi. Closing its tour at Galerie de l’UQAM, this exhibition highlights the artist’s extensive research into the complex layers of colonial and postcolonial histories linking Eritrea, Italy and Canada. Simultaneously, the gallery is hosting Views from Above, a posthumous exhibition of works by Emmanuelle Duret (1990-2022) organized with the artists’ close circle. This photographic and sculptural installation focusing on memorial sites doubles as a tribute to a young artist who has greatly touched her community.
The ambitious virtual exhibition Canadian Art as a Historical Act is also accessible to the public through its website, which remains online until May 2023.
ON-SITE EXHIBITIONS
September 9 – October 22, 2022
Opening: Thursday, September 8, 5:30 p.m.
à corps perdu | sharing madness
Curators: Florence-Agathe Dubé-Moreau and Maude Johnson
Artists: Amrita Hepi, Hanako Hoshimi-Caines, Ligia Lewis, Lo Fi Dance Theory, Benny Nemer, Andrea Peña, Andros Zins-Browne
The group exhibition à corps perdu | sharing madness brings together artists from Canada and abroad to reflect on the different expressions of dance and movement in contemporary art. This project explores the idea of moving together: the curators are interested in what choreography can reveal about our interpersonal ties and our need for community. Each of the works employ the vocabularies, methodologies or codes of dance and choreography, investigating their potential for shared movement in addition to envisioning the nuances of embodiment and intimacy from various angles. The artworks encourage us to consider our relationships with others and new ways of being together in the wake of the year 2020, which has changed the very expression of human connections. The exhibition asks the question: what is the meaning of togetherness from here on out?
caroline pierret pirson. Plus jamais silencieuses
Graduating Master’s student in Visual and Media Arts (MFA), UQAM
Plus jamais silencieuses is a documentary and participatory video installation centered on listening and freeing the voices of people who have experienced gender-based oppression. This project was inspired by the essential role social media played during the #metoo uprising. Powerful weapons against the culture of silence, these platforms have allowed voices that have long remained stifled to be heard and to express impressive amounts of anger and desires. Drawing from this movement, Plus jamais silencieuses contributes to the liberation of the words and faces of 19 Montrealers, aged 26 to 74, from 10 countries.
November 4, 2022 – January 21, 2023
Opening: Thursday, November 3, 5:30 p.m.
Dawit L. Petros. Spazio Disponibile
Curator: Irene Campolmi
Exhibition organized and circulated by The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery (Toronto, Canada) sponsored by The TD Ready Commitment and supported by Lead Donor Lonti Ebers.
Presented in collaboration with renowned partners from the international art scene, this exhibition unveils a new body of work by Eritrean-born artist Dawit L. Petros. Highlighting the unexplored links between colonization, migration, and modernism, Spazio Disponibile refers to the colonial gaze that saw the lands of Africa as a space to occupy and exploit. The title also makes the exhibition itself a place to take in the complexity of formerly shadowed histories. Through archival documents and original works, Dawit L. Petros sheds light on the connections between the contemporary resurgence of nationalism and the repressed yet lingering memory of Italian colonization. Spazio Disponibile also addresses issues related to labor, to the pitfalls inherent to the constitution of nations, and to the intertwining of migration narratives.
Emmanuelle Duret. Views from Above
Graduating Master’s student in Visual and Media Arts (MFA), UQAM
Views from Above is a photographic and sculptural installation by Emmanuelle Duret (1990-2022) completed by a collective made up of the artist’s close circle after her passing. This project pursues the research undertaken by Duret in Discreet Inscenatory Effects et Die KZ und die Gedenkstätte: Replica I (Sightings, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, 2021) on the rhetoric of memorial sites and the tropes of intergenerational transmission. It is directly related to a trip the artist undertook in 2019 during which she photographed the empty foundations of barrack #5 at the site of the former Allach (Dachau) subcamp in the suburbs of Ludwigsfeld in Germany. Views from Above deals more specifically with the discursive fragmentation that the image operates on the exhibition’s narratives and leads us to reflect on the way history and memory are invisibly inscribed within spaces.
TOURING EXHIBITION
From October 6 to November 26, 2022 at La Maison des artistes visuels francophones, Saint-Boniface
Le septième pétale d’une tulipe-monstre
Curator: Elise Anne LaPlante
Exhibition organized by La Maison des artistes visuels francophones, the Galerie d’art Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen and Galerie de l’UQAM
How do different forms of normativity govern our bodies? How does imaginary somatic research allow us to approach the so-called alternative representations of the body? Le septième pétale d’une tulipe-monstre examines understandings of the body that challenges its normative contours. This three-part exhibition presents practices that make room for hybrid, ambiguous bodies, or that explore different possibilities through metamorphosis. Each cycle, presented consecutively at La Maison des artistes visuels francophones (Saint-Boniface, Man., October 2022), Galerie d’art Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen (Moncton, N.B., January 2023) and Galerie de l’UQAM (Montreal, Qc, November 2023), will each present new articulations between the artworks.
VIRTUAL EXHIBITION
Until May 2023
Canadian Art as a Historical Act
Under the direction of: Louise Déry
Curator and coordinator: Josée Desforges
Bringing together more than 150 artists, the project Canadian Art as a Historical Act aims to reintegrate art into Canadian history by interweaving canonical works and unusual discoveries, artistic events, and visual anachronisms. The exhibition is produced by Galerie de l’UQAM and is put online with the support of Digital Museums Canada, an initiative of Canadian Heritage.
The 2022 fall programming at Galerie de l’UQAM is produced with the support of:
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