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, […]
La Bande Vidéo During a Manif d’art residency in collaboration with La Bande Vidéo, Felipe Castelblanco added Quebec City to the transnational destinations of his Driftless journey aboard a precarious raft. Felipe Castelblanco, Driftless, 2012-2018 © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Felipe Castelblanco (Bogotá, Colombia) Felipe Castelblanco, an interdisciplinary artist born in Bogotá, Colombia in […]
Musée huron-wendat Hannah Claus invests the Yadia’wish (Turtle) gallery with three video works highlighting the interconnections between the Earth and its plants; water and its reflections; the Sky and its stars. Oeuvres d’Hannah Claus © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Hannah Claus (Montréal, Québec) Hannah Claus is a visual artist of English / Irish and Kanien’kehá:ka […]
Le Lieu Nadia Myre juxtaposes her personal experience with that of others to inspire introspection, revisit colonial history, and foster intercultural dialogue. Nadia Myre, Living with Contradiction, 2016 © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Nadia Myre (Montreal, Quebec) Born in 1974, Montreal artist Nadia Myre received a bachelor’s degree from the Emily Carr Institute of Art […]
Regart Shimabuku’s video Swan goes to the sea recounts the whimsical journey of swan pedal boats returning to the sea, accompanied by a moving original soundtrack. Shimabuku, Swan goes to the Sea, 2012-2019 © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Shimabuku (Japan) Shimabuku, born in 1969 in Kobe, Japan, holds a degree from the Osaka College […]
Manif d’art Window / Gallery In her Hello & Goodbye video, Kelly Mark adresses the symbolic universality of body language and expression which unites humanity beyond cultural and geographical backgrounds. Kelly Mark, Hello & Goodbye, 2018 © Renaud Philippe Kelly Mark (Welland, Ontario) Born in Welland, Nova Scotia, in 1967, Kelly Mark, holds […]