Caroline Monnet Forbidden to Swim

Date(s): Nov 16 2017, 5:00 pm

Location:

Parc « sans nom » (at the corner of Clark and de l’Arcade)

Event

Forbidden to Swim

© C. Monnet, 2017

Residency
April – November 2017

in partnership with LA SERRE – arts vivants, as part of POSSIBLES, a project featured in the Celebration of Montreal's 375th Anniversary official programming.

The installation Forbidden to Swim puts on stage the situation of poor water quality in Canadian Indigenous communities. In a country as industrialized and developed as ours, more than 150 First Nations communities still don’t have access to drinking water, which is essentially a violation of human rights.

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Forbidden to Swim

© C. Monnet, 2017

Caroline Monnet is a multidisciplinary artist from Outaouais, currently based in Montreal. She studied in both Sociology and Communication at the University of Ottawa (Canada) and the University of Granada (Spain) before pursuing a career in visual arts and films. Monnet is an alumnus of the Berlinale Talent Campus and TIFF Talent Lab 2016. Her films have been shown at numerous festivals around the world, including TIFF, Sundance, and Les Rencontres internationales.

http://carolinemonnet.ca/
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