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Reviews: Group Show Le septième pétale d’une tulipe-monstre and Stanley Wany's Espaces imprévisibles at galerie de l'UQAM

This week we look at the two exhibitions running at galerie de l’UQAM: the group show Le septième pétale d’une tulipe-monstre and Stanley Wany ’s Espaces imprévisibles . Both are mostly interesting as genre exercises. They are pleasant there is not that much else at play. Each exhibition consists of running through a gambit of genre clichés, one by way of a group curated by a gender category and one by an individual assuming a symbolic role as the derivation of a genealogy. Le septième pétale d’une tulipe-monstre was curated by Elise Anne LaPlante and involves the work of artists Caroline Boileau , Mimi Haddam , the collective Ikumagialiit (Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, Cris Derksen, Jamie Griffiths, Christine Tootoo), Daze Jefferies , Helena Martin Franco , Dominique Rey , and Winnie Truong . This is the third stop for the group exhibition. The works are in a variety of media (video, sculpture, watercolour, performance records, stenciled poetry, etc.) which are spread around the

Review: espace art actuel's "PornO" issue

There has been a spate of erotic art shows over the past year, varying highly in approach and quality. So it feels a bit timely that espace art actuel has put out an issue called “Porn*O,” not that it deals with any of this work, although it could be read in reference to some of it. Mathieu Beauséjour ’s show at Bradley|Ertaskiran for instance explicitly used porn the way that it’s sometimes discussed in the collection and Mia Sandhu ’s show at Patel|Brown could also be fitted in here while Kara Eckler ’s show overtly cast itself as a kind of pornography. The issue of esapce contains nine short essays/polemics. They range in approach from autobiography (Steven Audia) to brief art history genealogies (Julie Lavigne, Peter Dubé, Charlene K. Lau) and some attempts at theoretical art criticism (AM Trépanier, Claire Lahuerta, Emma-Kate Guimond, Mayookh Barua). It isn’t pornography itself that is treated as art (which is unfortunate), but a meta or post-pornography that more comfortably sl

Review: Lori Blondeau's I’m Not Your Kinda Princess at Dazibao

At Dazibao is the first solo exhibition in Montréal of work by Lori Blondeau, the winner of the 2021 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts. It features a selection of works originally curated by Nasrin Himad. Blondeau is a Cree/Saulteaux/Métis artist, an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Art at the University of Manitoba School of Art, and an art bureaucrat. The curation biographs her as follows: Since the 1990s, Lori Blondeau’s artistic practice in the fields of performance, photography and installation, along with her curatorial work and activities as co-founder and Executive Director of the Indigenous art collective TRIBE, has proved decisive to the ever-increasing centrality of Indigenous art and knowledge production in Canada. The first work, Grace (2006), consists of 14 head-shots spread at a right angle across two walls. These images were extracted from a performance involving friends, family, etc. performing as an abstracted self. The face is not visible bu