MARJOLAINE BORDUA / ORCHESTRARIA

MARJOLAINE BORDUA / ORCHESTRARIA

… a childlike or comic-strip style drawing delimits an empty area, which leaves us stunned, or which we mentally fill with the ambient sound. Using objects and strategies that could be associated with popular culture, it is in these evoked and thwarted spaces that an anti-spectacular atmosphere is created. « Orchestraria seeks above all to…

JEAN-MAXIME DUFRESNE / EUROLAND

JEAN-MAXIME DUFRESNE / EUROLAND

“Welcome to EuroLand, a domestic system dedicated to inventorying material, spatial and transcultural production in Europe. Far from being exhaustive, EuroLand would rather generate its own incomplete geography, following the signs of human activity that reveal other, minor spaces with no apparent quality. EuroLand imagines a region shaped by variable realities in their membership of…

LERUNNINGMAN / COLLECTION 2011

LERUNNINGMAN / COLLECTION 2011

” I question the fragile relationships and imbalance we maintain with our environment, as well as its social organization. I am interested in communication codes and the relevance of the information conveyed. With bollards and panels of my own, I comicily introduce the human presence into its ephemeral and complex relationship with its surroundings. ”…

LORNA BAUER / WHAT IS NOT BUT COULD BE IF, WHAT COULD APPEAR IN THE MORNING MIST

LORNA BAUER / WHAT IS NOT BUT COULD BE IF, WHAT COULD APPEAR IN THE MORNING MIST

For the exhibition presented at Sporobole, artist Lorna Bauer revisits and reconfigures an earlier body of work, entitled What Is Not But Could Be If, presented at YYZ Artist Outlet in Toronto in the summer of 2010. A new series of images, entitled What Could Appear In The Morning Mist, a title that also complements…

JEAN-PIERRE AUBÉ ET PATRICK BEAULIEU / GÉOPOLITIQUE DE L’INFINI

JEAN-PIERRE AUBÉ ET PATRICK BEAULIEU / GÉOPOLITIQUE DE L’INFINI

The works of Jean-Pierre Aubé and Patrick Beaulieu gathered for the exhibition question our relationship to nature, space and the world. With Photo-synthesis (2004), Jean-Pierre Aubé makes sensitive the minute variations in luminosity in a given place while his new project shows and hears the elusive presence of Exoplanets (2011) located outside our solar system….

DOMINIQUE SIROIS / STUDIO LINE

DOMINIQUE SIROIS / STUDIO LINE

Sculpt, Fix and Volume – three plastic sounding promises made by the Studio Line range of hair products from the French giant l’Oréal, which materialise in Dominique Sirois’ installation. Broadcast in 1988, the company’s advertising clip is here shelled and reformulated by the artist who was interested in the Studio Line trademark, developed by the…

SARLA VOYER / MÉMORIAL

SARLA VOYER / MÉMORIAL

Designed in the spirit of architectural games, MÉMORIAL is an in situ sculptural installation that unfolds on the floor of Sporobole in order to inscribe the plan of a fictional city seen as the crow flies. The project, which is both a collection and a collection project, is evolving. Thus, an urban sketch based on…

MITCH MITCHELL / BERTH

MITCH MITCHELL / BERTH

Mitch Mitchell’s prints and in situ installations present series of staged images of manipulated landscapes that evoke the extent of the constraints imposed on different environments by major construction projects. Without any visible reference to human habitation, they have the poetic and haunting appearance of the transformation process of industrial abandonment. The artist’s recent works…