2024-2025 Programming
The artist-run center OBORO is proud to present its program of exhibitions and activities for the year 2024-2025.
To kick off the autumn season, OBORO welcomes the duo Béchard Hudon in the Salle Daniel-Dion and Su Schnee to present The Wandering Monuments #2, an abstract visual and sound exploration and an ode to the immensity of icebergs, which the artists encountered during a stay in Newfoundland. The small gallery serves as a playground for artist Caroline St-Laurent, who blends visual art and sport in the project Tandem: Portrait of Paracyclists Shawna Ryan and Joanie Caron, two top-level cyclists. Their complicity and excellence as female athletes, and for one of them, as a person with low vision, are celebrated in a sequence shot of them cycling, along with a bas-relief and a bronze sculpture. In parallel, a new iteration of Lawond, an exhibition by Eddy Firmin curated by Tamar Tembeck that deals with racism and the exploitation of bodies, which was presented at OBORO in 2023, will be shown at the Art Mûr gallery as of September. Also, this fall, as part of the New Media Creation Residency for Indigenous Artist(s) made possible with the support of the Conseil des arts de Montréal, multidisciplinary artist Greg A. Hill is developing his research into data converted into object(s), sound, light and installation in order to express and communicate experiences of being in/with/on the Land.
Winter will be marked by the presence of artist Yen-Chao Lin in Salle Daniel-Dion et Su Schnee, as well as Andrée-Anne Roussel in the small gallery. With Summoning, Lin offers a cumulative survey of her work over the past five years, an overview of her research into the human connection with the invisible and the unknown, the unseen moving forces that influence the physical world. Sculptural installation, 8mm film and works on paper poetically coexist. In Roussel’s work, the poetic gives way to intuition, prediction and speculation in the worlds of finance, spirituality and machine learning. The resulting video installation, Speculative Creatures, is an evolving work whose narrative structure is generated by a probability tool based on Markov chains, a random mathematical process. Shanie Tomassini and Alex Boeschenstein, who completed part of their off-site residency at the former mining town of Gagnon in Côte-Nord to collect images in the summer of 2024, return this winter to complete the sound and video research project Circular Evidence. In February, artists Salima Punjani and Pipo Pierre-Louis will be in residence at OBORO to continue their development of a mobile spatial sound studio. They are focusing on the organization of sonic death cafes, relational spaces that allow participants to engage with the notions of death and collective mourning.
As in previous years, OBORO resumes its collaborations with Festival de Casteliers in March, then with Festival Accès Asie in May for the production and presentation residency Interval. Creative partners since 1999, OBORO and Festival Accès Asie are presenting a special exhibition program in 2025 with artist and dancer Charlie Prince. to a still moment repeated features a series of video portraits of individuals from different social classes, religions and generations in the artist’s native country, Lebanon. The project offers a profound meditation on hope, grace, resistance and the body’s ability to find its own poetics, even and perhaps especially in situations of systemic violence and geopolitical turbulence. To close the season in the spring, artist-in-residence Cheyenne Rain LeGrande ᑭᒥᐊᐧᐣ explores her Nehiyaw feminine identity with the Mullyanne Nîmito project, where movement and fashion form extensions of traditional healing and reclamation practices.
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