Artexte Director, Sarah Watson, and Gallery Director, Michèle Thériault, selected the seven artists for the eleventh edition of IGNITION.
About the artists
Maryse Goudreau’s practice moves between mediums of photography, video, the archive, the performative and the participatory. The work is an inquiry into Québec’s forgotten maritime history, specifically that of the government’s campaign in the 1920s to eradicate beluga whales.
Although an untrained dancer, Adam Kinner researches the political potential of the performing body through dance. In his piece Suite canadienne, Kinner re-performs a minor part from Ludmilla Chiriaeff’s 1955 folk ballet, titled the same, in institutional spaces across the city.
Aluminum Lake, a sculptural installation by AN Soubiran, references the pigment found in cosmetics, food and oral drugs in relation to how HIV is defined, experienced and represented.
I Never Think of Alaska is a photographic series by Lise Latreille. Latreille’s longterm engagement with her hometown of Shawville, Québec is central to her work. She depicts rural and familiar landscapes while disrupting linear narrative and documentary photography.
Geneviève Moisan’s textile based practice is inspired by traditional artisanal techniques but created on the computerized Jacquard loom. Dark, Foursome, Selfie, Kiss, Gum, À la pointe, and Relation reflects this tension between the new and old in hypermodernity.
Shirin Fahimi’s installation The Apparatus of Desubjectification, is a theoretic investigation of the relation between the subject and mechanisms of communication. Her research takes its artistic form in chalk diagrams and a video.
Matthew NG is interested in the tension between order and freedom. In his installation Projector Paint, he juxtaposes various material forms, from light to ceramics to reflect upon the interface between an internal view and external influences, and the art historical canon.
IGNITION is Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery’s annual exhibition highlighting artworks by graduate students from Concordia University’s Studio Arts and Humanities programs. Projects selected by Sarah Watson and Michèle Thériault. The exhibition is made possible with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. Free admission and wheelchair accessible.
MEET THE ARTISTS Wednesday May 6, 4:30 p.m.
EXHIBITION OPENING RECEPTION Wednesday May 6, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.