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

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

With Dynamique interne/ Internal Dynamics, Jo-Anne Balcaen presents a series of photographs produced during a six-month residency in New York in 2014-2015. Balcaen proposes a critical analysis of the art system and of the homogeneousness of commercial New York gallery spaces. Appropriating the spaces, she aim to capture what lies behind the institutional curtain: the interior snapshots attempt to show the opacity of the machinery behind the art world, hidden aspects of gallery work, the power relationships. Each photograph stages the physical and psychological barriers between the gallery’s public space and its restricted areas: office entrances, blocked hallways, and doors marked “PRIVATE.”

Adam Basanta’s solo exhibition, A Large Inscription / A Great Noise, brings together two kinetic sound installations featuring automated microphones that attempt to draw a circle on the gravel-covered ground. By the same token, Basanta suggests a reflection on the circle, a major natural form without beginning or end. Each work articulates a tension between the conceptual origin of the circle, as perfect geometric form, and its material limitations. The gallery will thus be occupied by imperfect circular traces left by automatons that produce textured, ambient sound.

Youth Exhibition_at the Sourithèque

OPTICA + La Sourithèque