Manel Benchabane in conversation with Yen-Chao Lin and Justine Skahan
HOST - Guided Tour and Conversation
Conversation between the artists, Yen-Chao Lin and Justine Skahan, and Manel Benchabane
Saturday, March 23, 2024 at 1:00 pm - In person at articule, open to all
Bilingual event, interpretation in ASL and LSQ offered on site by ISEP
articule is pleased to invite the public and its members to a guided tour and discussion of the exhibition HOST by Yen-Chao Lin and Justine Skahan. The discursive activity will take place this Saturday, March 23 at 1:00 PM, in person at the gallery.
Before night sets in, on a road, cutting through a forest, navigating an island, trying to tease a memory out of tangled nostalgia, through a window, past a curtain, peeking in, peeking out, the works of Yen-Chao Lin and Justine Skahan explore notions of home and displacement. […]
The discussion between the artists and mediator Manel Benchabane will be preceded by an artist guided tour of the exhibition. The event is bilingual, and ASL and LSQ interpreters will be present.
Please note that with the increase in COVID 19 and flu transmissions, masks must be worn for the duration of the events.
Manel Benchabane is a curator of contemporary art and exhibition manager at the Stewart Hall Art Gallery. She was previously in charge of the education and cultural mediation program. She is interested in nature and the environment, diversity and cultural issues, heritage and feminism. She is a regular contributor to various contemporary art publications and has served on various committees and juries.
Yen-Chao Lin 林延昭 is a Taipei-born Montreal-based multidisciplinary artist. Having grown up in a multifaith family, she is interested in religion, spirituality, divination arts, dowsing, occult sciences, alchemy, oral tradition, and power - everything that can be sensed, but not necessarily seen. As a natural history enthusiast and an avid collector, Yen-Chao gathers specimens of mineral, botanical, animal and industrial origins, including objects that stare at the vestiges of a recent or distant past, with a story to tell. Through means of intuitive play, collaboration, scavenging and collecting, her tactile practice often incorporates various craft techniques, such as copper enameling, textile, and glass; creating installations, sculptures, and experimental films.
Yen-Chao's works have been shown at Art Metropole (Toronto), Berlinale, Hong-gah Museum (Taipei), Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, OBORO (Montreal), SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin), SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art (Montreal), among others.
Justine Skahan holds a BFA from Concordia University and an MFA from the University of Ottawa. Her work has been included in group exhibitions in Brooklyn, NY; Treviso, Italy; Reykjavik, Iceland, and throughout Quebec and Ontario. She has participated in artist residencies through Occurrence and Admare in Quebec and the Maritimes, at the Banff Centre, at the Klondike Institute for Arts and Culture in Dawson City, and SÌM Residency in Reykjavik. Past awards include the Stonecroft Venice Scholarship and the René Payant Award, both from the University of Ottawa, as well as being shortlisted for the 2016 RBC Canadian Painting prize. In 2023, she was awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Grant for painting and drawing. Upcoming residencies include one at Galerie Stewart Hall in Pointe-Claire, one at Atelier Impression Numérique at Bâtiment 7 in Montreal, and one at Daïmon artist-run centre in Gatineau.