Méduse rooftop Perched on a rooftop, the Planète 9 flag waves against the urban landscape and bears the emblematic colours of the hypothetical ninth planet of our solar system (as imagined by Amélie Laurence Fortin). Amélie Laurence Fortin, Planète 9, 2019 © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Amélie Laurence Fortin (Quebec City, Quebec) Amélie Laurence Fortin […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Materia Inspired by the colourful patterns of 17th century Dutch whalers’ hats, Polly Apfelbaum made custom wool hats for each artist of the Biennial in her Mutts and Mugs: Chicken Little was Right! The Sky Is Falling installation. Polly Apfelbaum, Mugs and Mutts: Chicken Little Was Right!, 2019 © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Polly Apfelbaum […]
Galerie des arts visuels Reanimation (Baloo Stripped Bare), a video produced in collaboration with 2500 children, is presented as a cacophonous installation at the Galerie des arts visuels. Oliver Beer, Reanimation (Baloo Stripped Bare), 2017-2019 © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Oliver Beer (London, England) Oliver Beer, born in 1985, lives and works in London and […]
LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE La Chambre Blanche presents Amélie Laurence Fortin in an open residence as she develops her 10x series from recordings of acoustic and electromagnetic phenomena in the Arctic. Amélie Laurence Fortin, 10x, 2017-2019 © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Amélie Laurence Fortin (Quebec City, Quebec) Amélie Laurence Fortin completed a bachelor’s degree in […]
L’Œil de Poisson The Lutz & Guggisberg duo is taking over L’Œil de Poisson’s gallery with thousands of clay figurines accumulated into a chaotic and disproportionate microcosm. Lutz & Guggisberg, Animals and Furniture, 2017-2019 © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Lutz & Guggisberg (Switzerland) Switzerland’s Andres Lutz, a cabaret artist born in 1968 in Wettingen, and […]
Édifice Marie-Guyart The interactive sound installation her voice 1599-1672 gives back its voice to a religious artefact, a bronze bell that will resonate in the streets of Quebec. A K Dolven, her voice 1599-1672, 2018 © Renaud Philippe A K Dolven (Norway) Born in 1953 and a native of Oslo, A K Dolven studied […]
Monastère des Augustines Marianne Nicolson takes over a building’s glass facade by designing sinuous and dynamic compositions. Drawn from the ancestral Kwakwaka’wakw culture and pictograms, they evoke Indigenous cosmogony. © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Marianne Nicolson (Dzawada̱’enux̱w, British Columbia) Of Scottish and Dzawada’enuxw descent (British Columbia’s Kwakwaka’wakw community), Marianne Nicolson was born in 1969. […]
Parc de l’Artillerie composante du lieu historique national des Fortifications-de-Québec Show in partnership with Avatar Lowlands is a sound work that resonates inits outdoor location. The artist interprets a Scottish sea shanty that recounts the tragic farewells caused by a drowning or departure. Susan Philipsz, Lowlands (oeuvre sonore), 2010 © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Susan Philipsz […]
Terminus de la traverse (Lévis) Emblematic of Shimabuku’s playful interventions, a curious flock of swan-like pedal boats comes out of Regart in the hopes of continuing its journey to the river. Shimabuku, Swan goes to the sea, 2019 © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Shimabuku (Japan) Shimabuku, born in 1969 in Kobe, Japan, holds a degree […]