The Autumn season began with the city's second-funniest exhibition this year. It was at MICA and part of the multi-venue exhibition, Une assemblée pour le cosmos , which spreads across Galerie de l’UQAM , the Institut d’art contemporain de Montréal, and Adélard . (I attended the first two and did not make it to the Frelighsburg exhibition, which extends one of the works at UQAM.) According to one of the official exhibition statements The project invites viewers to take a renewed look at the cosmos, which has always captivated our imaginaries and shaped our relationship with the world. While the ambitions for space conquest dominate the current context, the participating artists bring forward a diversity of forms of knowledge and sensibilities through works that draw on affectively charged materials such as meteorites, stones, and sealskin, and a variety of media, such as sculpture, beadwork, installation, video, and sound. «Making Assembly» thus becomes a way to fos...
A critical revue of contemporary art in the city.