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MACM Collection Exhibition Summer 2019: Nadia Myre; Chloë Lum & Yannick Desranleau

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Curated by Marie-Eve Beaupré
June 20 - August 4, 2019

Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
185, rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest
Montréal (Québec)
H2X 3X5
Canada

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EXHIBITION PROGRAMME:

OPENING RECEPTION
Wednesday, June 19th, 2019
6:00 – 9:00pm
185, rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest
Montréal (Québec)
H2X 3X5
Canada

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MEET CHLOË LUM, YANNICK DESRANLEAU AND MARIE-ÈVE BEAUPRÉ
Thursday, July 4, 2019
6:00pm

CONVERSATION BETWEEN ANNE-MARIE ST-JEAN AUBRE AND CHLOË LUM & YANNICK DESRANLEAU
Thursday, July 18, 2019
6:00pm

ROUNDTABLE ON MATERIAL PERFORMATIVITY
with jake moore and Maude Johnson
Sunday, August 4, 2019
4:00pm

AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AIR
Series of performances

Wednesday, June 19, at 7:30 p.m. — Maya Kuroki – Lara Oundjian
Saturday, June 22, at 2 p.m. — Sarah Albu – Lara Oundjian
Thursday, June 27, at 7:30 p.m. — Sarah Albu – Maya Kuroki
Saturday, June 29, at 2 p.m. — Maya Kuroki – Lara Oundjian
Thursday, July 4, at 7:30 p.m. — Ellen Slatkin – Sarah Albu
Saturday, July 6, at 2 p.m. — Maya Kuroki – Ellen Slatkin
Thursday, July 11, at 7:30 p.m. — Sarah Albu – Maya Kuroki
Saturday, July 13, at 2 p.m. — Maya Kuroki – Ellen Slatkin
Thursday, July 18, at 7:30 p.m. — Maya Kuroki – Lara Oundjian
Saturday, July 20, at 2 p.m. — Ellen Slatkin – Lara Oundjian
Thursday, July 25, at 7:30 p.m. — Sarah Albu – Ellen Slatkin
Saturday, July 27, at 2 p.m. — Sarah Albu – Ellen Slatkin
Thursday, August 1, at 7:30 p.m. — Ellen Slatkin – Lara Oundjian
Sunday, August 4, at 3:00 p.m — Sarah Albu – Lara Oundjian

In keeping with Rebecca Belmore’s exhibition, the MAC will present works from its collection and new acquisitions, including pieces by Nadia Myre, that express something profoundly human as they tackle topics of desire, loss, resilience and knowledge.

Based on themes such as Indigenous identity, Meditations on Red, 2013, is a series of photographs depicting meticulous beadwork. Through the piece, the artist offers a critical reflection on identity as defined by blood and the racist concepts of “white man” and “red.” With her Contact in Monochrome (Toile de Jouy), 2018, wallpaper and Pipe, 2017, her bronze-cast tobacco pipe, she reinterprets the history and evolution of the tobacco trade.

The theme of performativity, present in Rebecca Belmore’s work, can be seen through a completely different lens in the work of Chloé Lum and Yannick Desranleau. Two installations–one a sculpture: The Face Stayed East The Mouth Went West, 2014, a MAC Collection acquisition that has yet to be presented, and the other a video installation: What Do Stones Smell Like in the Forest?, 2018–will be positioned in mutual dialogue. The installation will serve as a testimony to the development of the artists’ work in relation to the living arts and performativity of the last few years.