Art in Montreal

Chloe Wise , In Loveliness of Perfect Deeds at Blouin|Division Subjecting whatever Wise’s work supposedly means to criticism is on the same level as making jokes about Boris Johnson. It’s taking the bait of the media image that has been constructed around her (as well as presumably by her) and which allows her to sit comfortably in air-headed profiles for Elle Canada and Interview . However, there is something tantalizing about that, even if it makes you a fool for engaging at all. Instead, it is better to simply look at the work in situ, an object to be stumbled into at the end of the long corridor in the unfortunately designed space of Blouin|Division. If there could be such a thing as twee nostalgia for a past generation of hipster cliche, it would exist here, less in the overt sense of its content, than in the manner in which it is arranged. It’s the arrangement that lingers because the rest is fairly forgettable, presumably a deliberate effect as one scrolls through the pro

  Erin Shirreff, Midday dilemma at Bradley Ertaskiran from June 8 to July 16, 2022 “The works on view in the exhibition are each grounded in the visual archive of 20th-century Western art history, a source Shirreff has used either directly or indirectly in sculpture, video, and photography for several years. Shirreff uses this material—images of objects meant for contemplation—not for critique or homage, but to explore our experience of looking and the peculiar expressiveness of objects rendered in two dimensions.” Marco Brambilla, Heaven’s Gate at Centre Phi from June 30 to October 24, 2022 “Heaven's Gate is a monumental new work by videographer Marco Brambilla. Seen as a grandiose, satirical and dizzying meditation on Hollywood's dream factory, Heaven's Gate is a psychedelic digital tableau inspired by the Seven Levels of Purgatory that employs the same state-of-the-art digital composition technology as the films it references.” Baruch Gottlieb, Feedback #6: Mar