A Light That Never Goes Out at Fonderie Darling features the work of Omar Castillo Alfaro , Camille Charbonneau , Jesús Hilario-Reyes , Simon Petepiece , Jeremy Shaw , and James Webb . It was curated by Renaud Gadoury . The exhibition fills both the large and small galleries and contains primarily sculptural and sound works. The large gallery is dimly lit and the small one brightly lit. There is a general expectation that the viewer will interact with the various works, an activity that ranges from holding a soundwork to one’s body to walking through structures or around them. Textual supplements are absent in the gallery spaces. Upon entering, the attendant informed me that it was an exhibition about the status of religion when people no longer attend church or other religious institutions. While this is scarcely accurate, the gist is that it investigates the numerous places where the “sacred” can be witnessed, something that, for whatever reason, seems to involve architecture or i...
Reviews: Lynda Gaudreau at Centre Vox; Megan Wade-Darragh at Duran Contemporain; Wanda Koop at Blouin|Division; David Altmejd at Bradley|Ertaskiran
Lynda Gaudreau’s “Romances” at Centre Vox There are half a dozen basic elements to Gaudreau' s show. At the entrance is a wall of staggered images in a dark, makeshift alley. Once you walk through that, there is a little table with coloured lights and some magazines covered in plastic you can flip through. In the anteroom is a prop version of the type of press kiosk that once existed in Montréal, filled with stacks of tabloids, or the “yellow press.” There are two trailers projected for a giallo film (one at a time): one from the perspective of the investigation and one from the victims'. And there is a sound installation, consisting of fragments of music, dialogue, gasps, etc. According to the accompanying text : The storyline, inspired by the aesthetics of Italian giallo cinema, proceeds through a series of crimes in which the victims’ eyes are mutilated. This motif references the drive and desire to see that is integral to cinema and visual culture. In both the giallo...