Archive - ArtInMontreal’s Newsletter

If you have the misfortune of reading these posts regularly, you may have noticed the frequency with which I refer to propism, a term I do not think I…

Jun 6 •

May 2025

Reviews: Stéphane Gilot at Optica and Chromatopia at Fondation Guido Molinari

Previously, I have discussed my reservations around the employment of the role of “narrative” in exhibitions.

May 22 •

April 2025

Reviews: Marie-Pier Vanchestein at Elektra and Diyar Mayil at Articule

The Rustlings of the Group Are Invented as They Slip Away is an exhibition by UQAM graduate student Marie-Pier Vanchestein at Elektra.

Apr 17 •

Review: Joyce Wieland: "Heart On" at the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal

Heart On is a retrospective of the work of Toronto artist Joyce Wieland.

Apr 4 •

March 2025

Reviews: Three at Eli Kerr; Cynthia Girard-Renard at Galerie Cache; Cindy Phenix at Hughes Charbonneau; Kuh Del Rosario at Galerie B-312…

Stuck on the metro beside an anglophone with a manicured beard and beanie and a nondescript female companion, I listened as he bemoaned entering the…

Mar 19 •

Review: Kelly Jazvac's "Le désir et le matriarcat" at Galerie Nicolas Robert

Occupying the central space of Galerie Nicolas Robert, Kelly Jazvac’s exhibition Le désir et le matriarcat has silver-toned lightboxes set around…

Mar 11 •

February 2025

Review: Janis Rafa's "Landscape Depressions" at Centre Vox

Taking up the entirety of Centre Vox’s exhibition spaces is Greek artist Janis Rafa’s Landscape Depressions. It is part of Vox’s Chronopolitics…

Feb 19 •

Reviews: Annie Charland Thibodeau at Galerie B312, Camille Jodoin-Eng at Patel|Brown, Louis-Charles Dionne at Circa

Monumentality is a theme that tends to crop up a bit in the city.

Feb 13 •

Reviews: Mohadese Movahed at Art Mûr and Santiago Tamayo Soler at Centre Clark

Occupying the gallery facing the street on the second floor of Art Mûr is Mohadese Movahed’s Voices of Feathers, Voices of Daggers. The show consists of…

Feb 1 •

December 2024

Reviews: Jacinthe Loranger at Circa and Alanis Obomsawin at MAC

Not long ago we reviewed a show at UQAM that took as its broad concern issues of “fake news” and the schisms between different types of knowledge.

Dec 12, 2024 •

November 2024

Reviews: Diana Thorneycroft at Art Mûr; Amanda Boulos and Cindy Hill at Centre Clark

This week we deal with three shows that play with different types of fetish imagery.

Nov 18, 2024 •

October 2024

Review: Jeremy Shaw's Localize Affect at Bradley | Ertaskiran

If the previous review examined two very different ways that the “haunted” was presented, this time around is another way of presenting “spirit.” In…

Oct 31, 2024 •

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