SDC Laurier Ouest
From May 30 to August 31
Rosemont
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Taking place in the windows of commercial spaces or through the concept of artistic cubes, Vitrine sur l’art participates in energizing urban life by offering a unique discovery experience to individuals who cross its path.
May 30 to August 31
SDC Laurier Ouest
Clara Lou Micheau
Clara Lou Micheau
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Éclosion d’une légende de mon marais
Today, nature is associated with the sublime, the feminine, and the origin myths. Despite how powerful its image is, our western societies claim that nature is inferior to mankind. We ought to conquer the land, yield animals to our will and venerate binary “science”. The installation Éclosion d’une légende de mon marais questions this anthropocentrism. By offering its green resolute presence in a city of concrete, the work welcomes you in a space of magical escapism and emotional respite. Made in ceramics, the rich materiality connects to the earth, giving a sense of certainty in the manifestation. The landscape examines the concept of dualism such as mind-matter. It is a fabricated nature that elicits not only curiosity but respect and enchantment. By bringing viewers to embrace the vitality of matter, it challenges the western defiance of disrupting hierarchical dualism and it asks for an empathic notion of existence.
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Daria Elas
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Circulation libre
Inspired by artist Valentine Schlegel’s plaster chimneys, Daria Elas explores sculpted interiors and fictional spaces in this work. Pairing visual art with architecture, Circulation Libre attempts to capture the essence of the functional world with an imaginative and abstract touch. The staircase, whose function is to ensure the circulation between two or more levels, becomes a plaster sculpture. Then, taking up recurring characters from my paintings, the sculpted neon lights breathe new energy into this room while retaining their lighting role. The choice of colors, the lighting and the play of textures, appealing to our sense of touch, all play with notions of interior design and aestheticization of space. This is how architecture, design and abstract figurative painting meet in a sensitive hybridity.
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Quentin Savignac
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Constantly experimenting, he realized the residency Créer des ponts of Art Souterrain. This time of practice allowed him to continue studying, through sculpture, the relationship between colors, materials, textures and movements. He took part in two exhibitions with the resulting pieces.
In parallel, he continued to practice photography. He applies the same themes as in sculpture. His favorite processes are enlargement on textured paper and very large format enlargement. Seeking to produce works that are out of the ordinary, creating impact and testifying to their concept, he uses a unique process to produce enlargements up to 50″ high.
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Through his practice, he explores the relationship between the urban and the pristine, the natural and the manufactured, the constructed and the deconstructed universe.
Through silver photography, he approaches volumes with a naive eye, detecting similarities in form, materiality and language. Highly contrasted and developed by hand in a darkroom, his photos present construction sites, agricultural buildings, mechanical and industrial structures, testifying to their beauty and their excessiveness.
His sculptures allow him to study the relationship between vectors, reflection, shadow, materiality and movement. Savignac draws his inspiration from the urban, the architecture, the landscape, as well as from the imaginary and science fiction. He diverts various metal materials, all salvaged, to create colorful, moving pieces that are both delicate and imposing in appearance.
SUPERWRAP
SUPERWRAP, made of metal frames, steel sheets and plastic film, explores the recent evolution of the interface between public and private space, through the hyper-rationalization of morals.
It is a body with skin, skeleton and heart.
The piece refers to the themes of compartmentalization, of the physical and moral fracture between spaces, as well as to the overprotection of the individual by adding superficial layers between beings. Its skeleton, Cartesian and predictable, calls for the themes of solidarity, rationalization and normative, essential to the asepticization of human relations.
Playing with colors and materiality, SUPERWRAP is as high as it is fragile.
The artist thanks Chloé Zerini-Le Reste, Alice Zerini-Le Reste, Michèle Dubois and Jacques Savignac.
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May 30 to August 31
Rosemont
Ysé Raoux
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ENLEVER LA VIANDE
“ENLEVER LA VIANDE” is a series of sculptural installations mixing wire with plants in order to create non-figurative organic structures. This project is part of a research that aims to create bridges between the notion of landscape and still life, with the goal of evoking death, fragility and the precariousness of existence.
Each sculpture is unique and ephemeral, which reinforces its symbolism. It is suspended from a rotating motor, itself fixed to the ceiling. The speed of rotation is very slow, allowing the public to properly view and dissect the work. Presented in a transparent cube, subjected to light, the sculpture will disintegrate, leaving the metallic structure of the wire more and more visible. This process of decomposition constitutes the central point of Ysé Raoux’s practice. The evolutionary principle of the sculpture is a starting point for a wider reflection on the part of the public, who will see the sculpture disintegrate as time goes by.
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