Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde Carved out of whale bone, the works of Manasie Akpaliapik use the organic forms of the material to reveal complex representations of the interrelations of the living. Manasie Akpaliapik, L’Homme et le hibou, vers 2000 Manasie Akpaliapik (Arctic Bay, Nunavut) Born in 1955 […]
Central exhibition / MNBAQ
Shuvinai Ashoona
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde Dense, meticulous, and radiantly chromatic, Shuvinai Ashoona’s drawing compositions create a singular iconographic universe combining everyday life with myth. Shuvinai Ashoona, Imaginary Creatures, 2016 Shuvinai Ashoona (Kinngait, Nunavut) Shuvinai Ashoona was born in 1961. She began to draw in 1993 and joined Kinngait’s […]
Christiane Baumgartner
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde Resulting from a long process of wood engraving, Christriane Baumgartner’s monumental prints The Wave and Phoenix confront the elemental forces of nature. Christiane Baumgartner, The Wave, 2017 © Idra Labrie Christiane Baumgartner (Germany) Christiane Baumgartner, a native of Leipzig, Germany, was born in 1967. […]
Patrick Bernatchez
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde Aphélie 1 by Patrick Bernatchez is a post-experimental installation. It refers to the daily recordings of a natural phenomenon: the luminous variations of the Sun. Patrick Bernatchez, Aphélie 1, 2016 © Idra Labrie Patrick Bernatchez (Montreal, Québec) Self-taught artist Patrick Bernatchez was born in […]
Vija Celmins
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde Whether they depict starry skies or spider webs, Vija Celmins’s hyperrealist drawings are attempts to grasp the universe’s immensity, one detail at a time. Vija Celmins, Untitled (Large Night Sky), 2016 Vija Celmins (Riga, Latvia) Born in 1938 in Riga, Lithuania, Vija Celmins completed […]
Daniel Corbeil
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde Inspired by environmental sciences and utopian architecture, Daniel Corbeil’s Cité laboratoire is an inventive model of urban solutions in preparation for impending climate change. Daniel Corbeil, La Cité laboratoire, 2012-2018 © Idra Labrie Daniel Corbeil (Val-d’Or, Quebec) Daniel Corbeil, born in Val-d’Or in 1960, holds […]
Michael Flomen
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde Michael Flomen lets the creative forces of nature act on photosensitive paper during night performances under the moonlight. Michael Flomen, Double Trouble, 2001, printed 2014 © Idra Labrie Michael Flomen (Montreal, Quebec) Born in 1952, Michael Flomen, a self-taught Montreal artist, has been practicing […]
Caroline Gagné
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde Visual, sonic, and tactile, Caroline Gagné’s installation The sound of icebergs translates and shares the sublime experience of approaching a drifting iceberg. Caroline Gagné, The sound of icebergs, 2016 © Idra Labrie Caroline Gagné (Quebec City, Quebec) Caroline Gagné is an artist from Quebec […]
Jim Holyoak and Matt Shane
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde The gloomy worlds of this artistic duo create phantasmagorical ecosystems on the verge of reality. The Who’s Haunts immerses the viewer in a house engulfed by the entropic forces of nature. Jim Shane Holyoak et Matt Shane, The Who’s Haunts, 2018 © Idra Labrie Jim Holyoak and […]
Krištof Kintera
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde Krištof Kintera’s sculptural accumulations come across as absurd and disturbing testimonies of excess in the era of hyperconsumption and planned obsolescence. Krištof Kintera, Systemus Postnaturalis, 2016-2017 © Idra Labrie Krištof Kintera (Prague, Czech Republic) Krištof Kintera, born in 1973, completed his studies at the […]
Dinh Q. Lê
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde The Colony is a video installation transporting the viewer to the Chincha Islands on the Peruvian coast, an emblematic place of international geopolitical tensions generated by the exploitation of rare natural resources. Dinh Q. Lê, The Colony © Idra Labrie Dinh Q. Lê (Vietnam, […]
Britta Marakatt-Labba
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde Dense, meticulous, and radiantly chromatic, Shuvinai Ashoona’s drawing compositions create a singular iconographic universe combining everyday life with myth. © Idra Labrie Britta Marakatt-Labba (Sami, Sweden) Britta Marakatt-Labba was born in 1951 in Idivuoma in northern Sweden to a family of reindeer herders. […]
Meryl McMaster
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde Meryl McMaster performs in front of the camera to celebrate the land and its historical anchor points by portraying allegorical characters freely inspired by the Indigenous imagination. Oeuvres de Meryl McMaster © Idra Labrie Meryl McMaster (Siksika, Ontario) Meryl McMaster, born in 1988, has a […]
Fanny Mesnard
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde Fanny Mesnard’s visual universe is peopled with hybrid characters evoking the animistic beliefs and fabrications that inhabit and condition human relationships with nature. Oeuvres de Fanny Mesnard © Idra Labrie Fanny Mesnard (Quebec City, Quebec) Fanny Mesnard graduated from Université Paris VIII in 2002, Aix-Marseille University […]
Haroon Mirza
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde Haroon Mirza’s technological installations utilize natural energy sources such as electricity and light to reflect on the complexities of today’s world through multisensorial symphonies. Haroon Mirza, Solar Symphony 10 (Transverse Waves for Wayne), 2016 © Idra Labrie Haroon Mirza (London, England) Born in 1977, Haroon […]
Cornelia Parker
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde Cornelia Parker explores the poetic resonances of matter disintegration. Composed of scrapwood, the sculptural installation No Man’s Land is dynamized by its suspension in space. Cornelia Parker, No Man’s Land, 2018 © Idra Labrie Cornelia Parker (Cheshire, England) Born in 1956 in Cheshire, England, […]
Reno Salvail
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde Fascinated by cartography and astronomy, Reno Salvail fashions his relationship to the visible world by amalgamating the natural landscape with his inner worlds, whether psychic or corporal. Dive into the depths of the starry sky reflected on a river in Le souffle de Pégase. […]
Tomás Saraceno
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde Tomás Saraceno’s sculptural installations put viewers into perspective, plunging them into a vertiginous vision of the cosmic universe. © Idra Labrie Tomás Saraceno (Tucumán, Argentina) Born in Tucumán, Argentina, in 1973, Tomás Saraceno lives and works in Berlin. He studied at the University […]