Becoming Unreal
Becoming Unreal
2018
Performance for voice and object
Paper mâché, aquaresin, forton, foam, acrylic paint, fabric.
18" x 24" x 24"
15 minutes approx.
Performed by Xuan Ye (2018-2019) and Eilidh Thomson (2020)
Video documentation by Rob Page, courtesy of Cooper Gallery.
- Stills from Non-Existent Performances
- The Garden of a Former House Turned Museum
- Meditations
- An Autobiography of Air
- Becoming Unreal
- The Lead Apron
- What Do Stones Smell Like in the Forest?
- I really / I want / Time for / A lie
- Standing Under Mis
- Laocoon
- Is It The Sun Or The Asphalt All I See Is Bright Black
- The Rules
- Rome
- squish to see you never
- 5 Tableaux (It Bounces Back)
- The Face Stayed East The Mouth Went West (elements)
- A Tree, A Hand, A Precarious Contraption, and Two Diagonals in the Background
- Big Sack series
- Re: The Stiffness That We Could Not Overcome Through Pries and Tries
- Exponential Directionals Grey and Peach
- The Face Stayed East The Mouth Went West
- We’re never gonna get close because it’s hanging, ...
- Exegi monumentum aere perennius
- Riffed An Utterance
- Vexations
- Certainty: Two Times Not Really
- Looming
- This Peculiar Bias Will Nonetheless Set Up A Vast Field For The Unforeseen
- Uncountable (Not Comparable)
- Avancez En Arrière
- The Options That Are Offered To Us: The Least Likely / The Most Tolerable
- J'm'en suis déjà souvenu
- More Time Than Space
- What Should Have Been And Would Not
- Chandigarh Is One
- Dis-donc à la grosse de se tasser
- Hoarding Skin
- Performance @ Galerie UQO March 31, 2023
- Lum & Desranleau @ GHC, January 25 - March 4, 2023
- Lum & Desranleau @ Esker Foundation, Calgary, July - December 2022
- Lum & Desranleau @ Fisura Festival, Mexico City, Feb 2022
- Lum & Desranleau @ Momenta Biennale 2021 Sept 8 - Oct 16
- Residency @ Salon58 in January 2021
- Press Review of 2020!
- "Is It The Sun Or The Asphalt ..." @ Cambridge Art Galleries, November 21, 2020 - February 27, 2021
- "Les gestes flottent, s’empilent, éclatent" Opens Sept. 11 2020 @ Centre Regart
- We are nominated for the 4th MNBAQ Contemporary Art Prize!
- Lum & Desranleau in "A Human Touch" @ Galerie Hugues Charbonneau
- Lum & Desranleau Artists-in-Residence at Mount Allison University
- Video documentation of 'Becoming Unreal' from Cooper Gallery exhibition available online!
- Solo Exhibition @ Musée d'art de Joliette until May 3, 2020
- "What Do Stones Smell Like in the Forest?" @ Latitude 53, Edmonton, September 6 - October 26, 2019
- Review of the MACM Exhibition in Canadian Art
- ROUNDTABLE ON MATERIAL PERFORMATIVITY, MACM, August 4 2019
- MACM Collection Exhibition Summer 2019: Nadia Myre; Chloë Lum & Yannick Desranleau
- "Becoming Unreal" Performed by Xuan Ye @ Gallery TPW, Toronto, February 23, 2019
- "The Lead Apron" Performed by Sarah Wendt @ Gallery TPW, Toronto, February 10, 2019
- What Do Stones Smell Like in the Forest?" @ Gallery TPW, Toronto, January 16 - February 23, 2019
- "What Do Stones Smell Like in the Forest" Publication is out Now!
- Lum & Desranleau in Residency @ Despina, Rio, Brazil, November 2018
- Lum & Desranleau Lecture @ Concordia University, March 16, 2018
- "What Do Stones Smell Like In The Forest" @ FOFA Gallery, Montreal, April 23 - May 25, 2018
- Montréal Book Launch for 5 Tableaux (It Bounces Back), Thu Nov 30, 2017
- 5 Tableaux (It Bounces Back) Book Launch, Or Gallery, Vancouver, October 14 2017
- Lum & Desranleau in "Performance via la caméra", @ Hugues Charbonneau, Sept 9 - Oct 21 2017
- "Laocoon" @ KM3, Montréal, August 30 - October 15, 2017
- "Standing Under Mis" @ Katzman Contemporary, Toronto, September 6 - October 28 2017
- "Is It The Sun Or The Asphalt All I See Is Bright Black" @ Circa, Montreal, May 13 - June 17, 2017
- Lum & Desranleau To Be Participating In KM3 Project, Fall 2017, Montreal
- Lum & Desranleau in "A Little Bit Of Infinity", @ University Of Alberta Museums
- 5 Tableaux (It Bounces Back), exhibit and performance at Or Gallery, Vancouver, Sept 9-Oct 29 2016
- Lum & Desranleau present 'The Rules' at OFFTA, June 2 & 3, 2016
- Yannick Desranleau receives the 2016 Claudine & Stephen Bronfman Fellowship
- Lum & Desranleau @ Papier 16, April 21 - 24, 2016
- Lum & Desranleau exhibition 'Rome' at SCSU's Kiehle Gallery opens Jan 26 2016
- Lum & Desranleau Visiting Artist Talk at UMN, January 25, 2016
- Lum & Desranleau are part of the jè-st' performance biennial, Moncton, Sept 23-26 2015
- L'image Signée Opens at Galerie Hugues Charbonneau September 3 2015
- Lum and Desranleau Featured in Vice
- Darling Foundry Performance August 6 2015
- The Face Stayed East The Mouth Went West (elements) Opens at Galerie Hugues Charbonneau May 2nd 2015
- Chloe Lum & Yannick Desranleau Nominated on the 2015 Sobey Art Awards Longlist
- Yannick Desranleau and Chloe Lum in Residence at UT Austin
- Simultaneous: Seripop & Sonnenzimmer opens at the CBPA, February 12, 2015
- Group Exhibition at MUNAE, Mexico City Opens December 11 2014
- The Face Stayed East The Mouth Went West opens at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, October 5, 2
- We’re never gonna get close... Residency and Public Intervention Starts June 10 in Victoria BC
- Yannick Desranleau & Chloe Lum at CAFK+A Public Art Bienniale
- Yannick Desranleau & Chloe Lum featured artists at Papier 14 Contemporary Art Fair
- Echo opens at Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Montreal QC, April 19
- Review of Certainty, Two Times Not Really in the Spring Issue of Canadian Art
- Vexations opens at Access, Vancouver BC, January 10 2014
- Yannick Desranleau and Chloe Lum's Looming in Canadian Art's Top 3 Pics of 2013
- tumblr
- Review of Looming on Daily Serving
- Certainty: Two Times Not Really opens at Struts, Sackville, October 25
- Seripop's Looming part of the Toronto Gallery Hop Tours 2013
- Art in Print Article on Montreal Contemporary Printmaking
- Looming opens September 6 at YYZ, Toronto
- Seripop (Yannick Desranleau & Chloe Lum) on Blouinartinfo.com
- Atlas Sérigraphique de Montréal is out now
- Seripop Interview on bodyliterature.com
- Seripop Lecture at Concordia University March 14, 2013
- Review of New Exhibition at Galerie Hugues Charbonneau on ratsdeville
- Two Exhibitions in March 2013: Engramme (Québec City) and Galerie Hugues Charbonneau (Montréal)
- Seripop (Yannick Desranleau & Chloe Lum) Interview on M-KOS
- Seripop (Yannick Desranleau & Chloe Lum) Nominated for the 2012 Pierre-Ayot Award
- 'Landscapes events reproducted' wins the 2012 OAAG Exhibition Award
- Seripop (Yannick Desranleau & Chloe Lum) are now represented by Galerie Hugues Charbonneau
- Avancez En Arrière - Présentation le 30 Septembre a Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu (Qc)
- Exhibition at TRUCK (Calgary,AB) opens September 7th