Solo Exhibition @ Musée d'art de Joliette until May 3, 2020
More information on the MAJ website
Chloë Lum and Yannick Desranleau.Treasures Are Hopes Made Solid to Catch the Light and Also the Dust
Curated by Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre
February 1 - May 3, 2020
Musée d'art de Joliette
145 Père-Wilfrid-Corbeil Street
Joliette, Québec J6E 4T4
450-756-0311
info@museejoliette.org
For several years, Montreal artists Chloë Lum and Yannick Desranleau have worked collaboratively with dancers and musicians. In the performances and videos they create together, objects play an important role as either allies or antagonists; treated as both extensions of the body and hindrances to its movement.
The photos and videos presented in Treasures Are Hopes Made Solid to Catch the Light and Also the Dust attempt to translate in textual, gestural, and audible form bodily states that are associated with the experience of confinement. When the body refuses to cooperate, when its movements are limited, even painful, because of chronic illness, how else can we escape it? Perhaps by stirring our imagination through reading or by paying attention to objects and our surrounding reality.
For this first show at the Musée d’art de Joliette, Lum and Desranleau continue their literary explorations with a series of recent works conceived as meditations inspired by the writings of Sylvia Plath and Clarice Lispector; the performers’ gestures and sung narratives reference Plath’s highly sonorous writing and Lispector’s rich descriptions.