Galerie B-312 currently shows the exhibition titled Arko Preeka by Monique Moumblow.
Moumblow’ video installations focus on her five-year-old twin daughters. Their interactions, play, and occasional screaming fits are captured in one of the two video projections, which shows the two girls negotiating the use of a fiendish toy: two tricycles welded together back-to-back. Right in front of our eyes we see the development of social skills, conflict resolution, and problem solving, as each sister attempts to peddle off in her own direction. The video is an amusing, subtle illustration of how our social conditioning is established in the framework of our family during childhood.
Visitors are invited to step through two kid-sized doors into the second projection room where another video shows a sitting room with an odd piece of furniture: a large cardboard tube. The tube contains the artist herself, the invisible mother, the pillar of the family – a poignant metaphor (occasionally the “tube” shows its feet and makes a little step to the side).
This is the first event in the series Animals and Children, curated by Rachel Eichenberg, exploring the nature of social behaviours by seeing the world through the eyes of others.

Galerie B-312
space 403
Monique Moumblow
Arko Preeka
exhibition period: April 30 – May 30, 2009
www.galerieb-312.qc.ca