Works from series:
Smith
Blur

Video:
Walk on by

**IMPORTANT NOTICE**In the wake of the current context, concerning the COVID-19 pandemic, OPTICA follows the new health guidelines from the Santé publique. We would like to inform you that the exhibition is closed until October 28. Visit our website and our social networks to find out about developments in the recovery situation on October 29. By then, take care!

Journées de la culture 2020

Come to take out your kit from October 29!

For the Journées de la culture, OPTICA offers Art to takeout, a free creative kit to experiment from home. The Creative Kit allows young audiences to learn more about the artistic practice of Sandra Brewster, an artist from Toronto whose works will be exhibited at OPTICA this fall. Inspired by the Blur photographic series, the kit provides an introduction to the based gel transfer technique the artist uses in many of her works. On the menu: the equipment necessary for carrying out their own gel transfer, a virtual tutorial to guide participants through the various stages of carrying out the transfer, practical information and small fun activities.

Reopening of OPTICA and health guidelines

We are pleased to announce that OPTICA has reopened its gallery for regular activities!
Starting October 3, 2020, OPTICA is presenting a monographic exhibition by artist Sandra Brewster (Toronto).

Solidarity

OPTICA wishes to express its solidarity to the Afro-descending community and to all those who experience racism on a daily basis. We also denounce all forms of police brutality. Cultural organizations, by their very mandate, are likely to play a key role in interpreting the struggle against racism, for they are bearers of and witnesses to a collective conscience. Through art, they have the capacity to raise and stimulate public awareness around values and principles, since the works not only convey ideas, but open up avenues for reflection. For millennia, art has helped to better understand the world arising before us.

Montreal and Toronto Launched, new publication: ARCHI-FÉMINISTES!

NEW PUBLICATION
ARCHI-FÉMINISTES!
Contemporary Art, Feminist Theories
Montreal and Toronto book launches

Published in 2001 by OPTICA, centre d'art contemporain, the book Creative Con/Fusions : Interdisciplinary Practices in Contemporary Art is now available in its entirety in a digital version. It will also be possible to consult it in the collections of the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) and e-artexte. The volume addresses questions about the multidisciplinary approach that remain current and that over the years have become more assertive.

Audio and video discussion in preview of the solo exhibition of the Toronto artist Sandra Brewster

The latest solo exhibition of Sandra Brewster, Blur, was on view at the Art Gallery of Ontario until March 14, when the museum closed to the public. The exhibition has since been confined within the gallery walls. From October 3, OPTICA will present in its two gallery spaces a monographic exhibition of Sandra Brewster which will include this recent series, Blur (2017-2019) as well as other series.