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Design Graduate Certificate alumna participates in local exhibition, vernissage
Repérages or À la découverte de notre monde or Sans titre
(Tracking or Toward the Discovery of Our World or Untitled)
Natacha Clitandre (Montreal), Maria Ezcurra (Montreal), Romeo Gongora (Montreal), Olivia McGilchrist (Montreal)
Curator: Dominique Fontaine (Montreal)
Exhibition: January 30 - February 28, 2016
Vernissage: Friday, January 29, 7 PM
Discussion: Saturday, February 20, 3 PM
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The exhibition also includes contributions from: Cécilia Bracmort, Livia Daza-Paris, Adeola Enigbokan, Stéphane Martelly, Myrlande Pierre, and Ronald Rose-Antoinette.
Repérages or À la découverte de notre monde or Sans titre (Tracking or Toward the Discovery of Our World or Untitled) is a multi-titled exhibition presented as part of Dominique Fontaine's curatorial research residency at articule, Scènes de la vie quotidienne à Montréal (on belonging and the politics of belonging). The following questions served as a framework for the residency’s activities: migration, belonging, alienation and issues faced by cities with diverse immigrant populations.
This exhibition considers what it means to inhabit a place through the concept of ‘belonging’. It provides an opportunity to reflect on the meaning of concepts that characterise the instability of our time. The goal of this exercise is to show how intellectuals and artists re-imagine specific characteristics of contemporary life: mobility, remoteness, belonging, and marginalisation. The title Repérages is a reference to Émile Ollivier’s book, which puts forward ideas about our current reality: globalisation, ethics, the right to intervene, migration, identity, and cultural pluralism.
As its starting point, the exhibition considers our contemporaneousness. Through the eyes of the participating artists, it seeks to shed light on art’s function as a tool for understanding our world, discovering reality and experiencing time. This exhibition gives shape to the initial research phase and presents itself as an accumulation of passages, a collection of moments or another way of thinking about the world in which we live.
The exhibition opening taking place January 29 also features a performance by Maria Ezcurra and a poetry reading by Stéphane Martelly.
Free entrance and warm ambiance.
articule's gallery is wheelchair accessible, but unfortunately, not its bathroom.
About the artist
Olivia McGilchrist is a Jamaican-French visual artist who’s alter-ego whitey explores physical expressions of emotional states in the search for cultural identity. She troubles her post-colonial white Creole female identity by remapping it within the tropical picturesque through photographs, multi-screen video installations and more recently with virtual reality. whitey‘s placement in the Jamaican physical and cultural landscape questions the role of racial, social and gender based categorization, classification and discrimination in the contemporary Caribbean space. Her work has been shown in Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, Grenada, Brazil, Canada, the US, the UK, Germany and France. Born in Kingston, Jamaica to a French mother and a Jamaican father, Olivia grew up in France and studied in England. She recently completed a Graduate Certificate in Digital Technologies in Art & Design at Concordia University, and is currently working on several projects in Montréal and the Caribbean. oliviamcgilchrist.com