Members' Show
© Photo credits: Marcella França, 2023
Exhibition from January 27 to February 17, 2024
Public reception: Saturday, February 10, 2024 from 4 - 8 PM
It is in response to the current global context, whose multiple crises exacerbate the oppressive logics underpinning old ontologies, that the articule Members' Committee presents the annual members' exhibition under the title MANIFESTATIONS.
Carrying both immaterial and tangible connotations, the theme invites us to consider the universe of individual and collective acts of communication and action. It's an invitation to explore a space of possibilities and actions, instigating change, transformation or affirmation. With this in mind, the nine participating members have put forward proposals that respond to this broad theme, giving free rein to multiple artistic expressions focused on sharing didactic or speculative reflections, which invite consideration of engaged perspectives reflecting considerations informed by the current era.
The annual members' show, presenting works involving multiple media in plural and singular forms, takes place in the articule gallery, from January 27 to February 17, 2024. February 10th will be the public reception of this annual exhibition! Come and meet us, exchange ideas, reflect and spend some quality time with us.
Please note that with the increasing transmission of COVID 19, masks must be worn in the gallery for the duration of this event.
Laïla Aït B.
Laïla Aït B. is an artist and industrial designer based in Tiohtià:ke / Montréal. With a particular interest in our collective unconscious surrounding notions of national identity and the body, Laïla explores how art and technology can reveal and subvert ideology. She grew up in Marrakech, Morocco, and began making art without thinking of it as such, but as a way of connecting with her environment using materials and stories she gleaned from the street. Laila’s work has been exhibited in galleries and public spaces in Montréal, Morocco, Algiers and around the Mediterranean.
fernando belote
Drawing from P(B)ajubá expressions “Bixa manifiesta I” is part of a series of multilingual compositions that utilises coarse language and sexually explicit imagery to further political awareness against hegemonic and oppressive forces. The phrase “con la fuerza (ES)do edi dar o doce nas instituíções (PT)”, which could be translated as “with the strength of my anus, prepare to take revenge on institutions”, offers a comic way of questioning notions of inflexibility that underlines the word “institution”.
Zahra BuAli
Painter, printmaker, sculptor, and ceramist. From the figurative to the abstract, to the mixed media, her work is strongly linked to her constant search into identity, cultural history, and influences.
Recipient of MAI ALLIANCE, GENERAL SUPPORT, 2022-2023, and Subvention aux artistes professionnels, de la Conseil des arts de Montréal & Ville de Montréal. Her artwork is exhibited locally, internationally. Holds B.F.A. Concordia University 1996, Montreal, Canada, & a B.Sc. University of Arizona, 1983, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.
Zahra lives and works in Montreal, founder of Atelier Inana, where she continues to create and teach art.
Marcella França
Marcella França is a Montreal-based Brazilian contemporary artist with a B.A. in Visual Communication, specializing in video performance. Her multidisciplinary practice, combining contemporary dance, digital technologies and visual art, is powerfully evocative, expanding artistic conventions to create public art, performance, video art and installations. Marcella addresses issues of decolonialism, ancestrality, ecofeminism and immigration, and has already exhibited at artist-run centers and festivals such as Art Souterrain, SAT, Montréal en Lumière, Articule, Agrégat and La Centrale Powerhouse.
Anna Grigorian
Anna Grigorian is an experimental artist from Armenia, whose art practice is based in Canada and Armenia. Her work revolves around socio political and economic problems, and examination of power relations.
Abi Hodson
Abi is a multi-media artist whose practice is based in collage whether it’s video, cake-making, movement, or wearables. Taking things that are discordant and mashing them together, recontextualizing materials to create new narratives. In their current work they are particularly focused on non-linear timescapes and sites of transition and transformation. Using the visual language of construction site materials to disrupt, Abi explores kinship with characters who inhabit the grey space between “good” and “bad.” Their work is rooted in the earnest and playful, seeking to spark curiosity and delight.
kimura byol lemoine
kimura byol lemoine is a multimedia artist and curator, born in korea (south), educated in belgium, and established to canada.
kimura-lemoine’s visual work, poems/writing and short films were presented internationally solo and in group.
zer works on issues surrounding identities: diaspora, ethnicity, colorism, gender, and play with words.
kimura-lemoine doesn’t like to use capital letters.
Laura Leong
Educated in Environmental Design, Laura as a professional designer has worked in luxury lighting, with three meter high paper softwalls and renovated an Airstream as a portable vacation home. In her ceramics practice, she’s exploring a speculative future to create an order of reality other than the one she has been given. The work is treated as a proxy for the fabric of reality, an essay in form and as a vehicle to escape dominant cultures' impositions on her mixed race identity. Whether it’s an alternative to the corners consumers are stuck in or a projection of her family’s diasporic journey in outer space, it’s greeted with an appreciation of the unpredictability and unknown potentials waiting in ceramics.
annik st-arnaud
annik st-arnaud is an artist based in tiohtiá:ke / mooniyang / montréal. her transdisciplinary practice lies at the intersection of textile processes, biodesign and culinary arts. from a speculative point of view, she explores our capacity for transition, collective organization and our potential to create flexible, sustainable systems. focusing on natural materials, some cultivated or gathered, she creates hybrid materialities centered on slowness, care and resistance. her current projects explore microscopy, food activation, cooking, fermentation and writing.