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Clara Painchaud. Laboratoires de natures potentielles

from Feb 22, 2024 to Apr 6, 2024
Galerie de l'UQAM

Graduating Master’s student in Visual and Media Arts, UQAM

Artist: Clara Painchaud

Opening: February 15, 2024, 5:30 pm

Clara Painchaud takes a multidisciplinary approach to imagine the tentacular entanglements between different ecologies, combining performance, sculpture, and video to create narratives of possibilities inspired by deviant, mutant, and speculative ecologies. Using a queer perspective, they seek to complicate the nature/culture and living/non-living binaries through a porousness in which recycled materials, various temporalities, and fictive fabrications intersect. By means of installations, the fictions Painchaud tells occupy the space and become modular. The artist presents a protocol in which they shape chimerical forms, gather eclectic scraps, and exaggerate performative propositions. Ceramic sculptures, found objects, and chosen sites inspire performances, which are documented. The transformation and connection established between different documents allows the artist to present laboratories in which they develop tangible connections with the world.

Exhibition

Incoming

Galerie de l'UQAM

Address

Galerie de l'UQAM
1400, Berri Street, local J-R120,
Montreal, QC H2L 4E3

Regular Schedule

From Jan 1 to Dec 31
Monday
Closed
Tuesday
12:00 - 18:00
Wednesday
12:00 - 18:00
Thursday
12:00 - 18:00
Friday
12:00 - 18:00
Saturday
12:00 - 18:00
Sunday
Closed

Holidays Schedule

Holidays follow the regular schedule

Facilities

Museum’s Exhibition(s)

Temporary exhibition
from May 11, 2023 to May 11, 2025
Virtual exhibition: Françoise Sullivan. An Imaginary Line
This virtual exhibition looks at the works executed by Françoise Sullivan during the 1970s, when she had discovered new art trends like conceptual art and arte povera. At that time, her work was rooted in photography, film, text and performative actions. An “imaginary line” is traced on a horizon that merges art, family, time and the world.
Temporary exhibition
from Nov 3, 2023 to Jan 20, 2024
Le septième pétale d’une tulipe-monstre
How do different forms of normativity govern our bodies? How does imaginary somatic research allow us to approach the so-called alternative representations of the body? Le septième pétale d’une tulipe-monstre examines understandings of the body that challenge its normative contours. This three-part exhibition presents practices that make room for hybrid, ambiguous bodies, or that explore different possibilities through metamorphosis.
Temporary exhibition
from Nov 3, 2023 to Jan 20, 2024
Stanley Wany. Espaces imprévisibles
In the exhibition Espaces imprévisibles, artist Stanley Wany explores his multiethnic family past and Afro-descendent identity through installations. The works reappropriate the history of Black communities in America by focusing on the legacies of colonialism responsible for erasing roots, cultures, and identities. Combining drawing, sculpture, and mediums that come from colonialist exploitation—coffee, sugarcane, indigo, and cotton—the artist examines the aesthetic potential of these materials while also showing their connection to his own history. Supported by movements of thought on Black identity, the exhibition is grounded in the cultural ecosystem of the Antilles and becomes a site of “creolization,” an unpredictable space created out of the encounter between different perspectives.
Incoming exhibition
from Feb 23, 2024 to Apr 6, 2024
De la vie au lit
De la vie au lit is an encounter between the curator and six invited artists—living in Canada, USA, and England—based on the experience of being bedridden, having a “dysfunction,” or a desire to explore collective rest. In the exhibition, the bed and its bedside become spaces of transmission, the ultimate sharing of intergenerational trauma, and romantic or amicable moments of care. Going through the experience induces new relationships to the body and to choreographed gestures. The assemblage of different art mediums also responds to the capitalist injunction of hyper-productivity, which stigmatizes recumbent and/or intermittent bodies. For those who suffer from pain and fatigue or deal with mental health issues either temporarily, chronically, or permanently, a life in bed that is critically and creatively repositioned becomes a place of possible sharing and collective resistance.