SOLO EXHIBITION

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"Pour que demain voie le jour" unveils a collection of works created over the past three years. This artist's first solo exhibition includes sculptures, sketches, studies, and photographs, all dealing with a common theme: the future of our world.

This exploratory project encourages cultivating not necessarily concrete solutions, but rather a heightened sensitivity towards the future. It represents a convergence of years of experience and diverse skills, where each work is a celebration of materials, an unlikely meeting of substances that reflects the richness of the artist's accumulated skills throughout their journey. Through this collection, the artist seeks to convey the importance of gesture in creation, emphasizing the essential role of making in expressing their vision.

By referencing the history of sculpture and its traditions, addressing current and personal subjects, the narratives aim to expose the evolution of collective values and the aspiration for a better era, where ethical consciousness would be at the heart of human action.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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An exhibition combining sculpture, drawing and painting, with the aim of making the public question the limits of interpretation and modulation of these mediums by assimilating them to one another. The curatorial work is in particular a sharing of knowledge between the artists and the curator Tess Lamy. The amalgamation of art categories and their attractions, such as painting and sculpture, is not new in the history of art. Although this is an interest that will have been evoked by several artists over time, one can conceive of a broad contemporary and innovative view of the artists. And this through the alteration of the form of the original canvas to transform itself into an object, until the assimilation of the sculpture embedded in a pictorial work. À la dérive questions the limit of reality, the limit of the work of representing a subject, the limit of the image in the image and of the form itself, during the improbable encounter of formal elements. and figurative. The artists probably have a work of technical research in their creations but it does not stop there...The mission is to question the origin and the borders of these two forms of art and by assimilating them to a common ethic .

- Word from curator Tess Lamy

Musée d’Art Actuel – Département des Invisibles is a performative and collaborative work by the Longueuil-based artist Stanley Février. The project consists of a traveling museum with the mission to activate critical thinking to tackle the root causes of systemic exclusion and make visible the contribution of culturally diverse artistic practices. As a 21st century institution, the MAADI wants above all to be fair and concerned to provide a plural reading of the current challenges of contemporary art. The work takes shape in a self-supporting structure where the collection is presented during temporary exhibitions. Taking the posture of the artist-curator and using the museum as a medium to make it a critical space, Février questions the art system, its socio-cultural and identity issues. We can see works by My-Van Dam, Esther Calixte-Béa, Clovis-Alexandre Devarieux, Florence Yee, Claudia Bernal, rudy aker, Rad Hourani, Aziza Nassih, Nora Isabel Golic and Vincent Lussier.

- Stanley Février

Passage à découvert is an opportunity to discover the work of contemporary artists and teachers of tomorrow who will occupy museums, galleries and schools. The exhibition illustrates the creative vivacity, curiosity and freedom of the students and testifies to the professionalism of the graduates, as well as the enthusiasm generated by their projects. Presented each year, this exhibition highlights the richness and diversity of the programs offered by the School of Visual and Media Arts at UQAM, which favors multidisciplinary training.

- UQAM School of Visual and Media Arts

Matériaux initiates a dialogue between the works of seventeen artists around our relationship to matter in a context where technology and overproduction cause a loss of contact with it. By moving away from the primary use and the initial form of the materials, the artists transform residual materials such as wood, steel, concrete, plastic and other composite materials to address various social, economic, political, ecological and cultural issues. The plurality of approaches and materials presented in this exhibition reflects the multiplicity and diversity of points of view present in our modern societies. »

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