News and reviews of current and past exhibitions featuring movie or video installations.
Inspired by the International Digital Arts Biennial (BIAN), today’s selection of four remarkable artworks currently on show in the galleries of the Belgo building are all video or sound pieces. Clockwise from top left: Perte de signal at Galerie Joyce Yahouda, Gwenaël Bélanger at Galerie SAS, Peter Flemming at Skol, Glenda Léon at Pierre-Franois...
The Centre des arts actuels Skol has transformed itself into a hothouse of innovation. Rather than showcasing the products of artists’ creativity, Skol is inviting the public to become creative themselves. The project Promiscuous Infrastructures is a playhouse for innovators, thinkers, tinkerers, debaters, creators, poets and artists. Everything is laid out for you: meeting...
Mathieu Jacques‘ Projet Populaire, currently showing at Arprim, is a experiment in cultural democracy. The project unites an artist and the general public to create the ultimate artwork: one which is loved by everyone. Mathieu Jacques started his project with a survey. Armed with a camera and a microphone he interviewed artists as well...
ONE RANDOM YEAR Is life a collection of random events or a story with a narrative? Bettina Forget‘s project One Random Year explores this question. The artist took a one-minute video every day during 2011 and created a 365-minute movie of her life. Says the artist: “Does my life have an over-arching narrative, one that I’m...
It’s around the corner: the all-night extravaganza Nuit Blanche à Montreal / The Montreal All-Nighter. This year the Belgo is host to 15 official events, though from what I hear there are a few other galleries which will – unofficially – keep their doors open for visitors as well. Mark your calendars for Saturday,...
The large gallery space at Circa has been plunged into darkness yet again. Step through the thick black curtain and you float in nothingness; the gallery space is silent except for the sound of intermittent mechanical clicks. Projected on the gallery walls are two vividly coloured video installations by artist J. F. Cantin. On...
When you first enter Galerie Joyce Yahouda you will be struck by the wall-sized drawings by Montreal based artist François Morelli. Their overwhelming size and fleshy pink colour practically pull you in. Reminiscent of Morelli’s sculptural work, the drawings feature swirling lines which meld into cages, hollow torsos morphing into animal heads, internal and...
The concept of light and shade is integral to visual art. It is the essential ingredient in Chiaroscuro, the basis of photography and film, and Caravaggio would loose all sense of drama without it. The current exhibition at Les Territoires titled En Obscurité explores the notions of light and shade by tipping the balance...
The creative research lab Grupmuv (founded in 2008 by three visual and media arts UQAM professors) organized a fascinating exhibit at Galerie B-312, presenting works by Ælab, Michel Boulanger, Thomas Corriveau, Katja Davar, Andrée-Anne Dupuis Bourret, and Florian Wüst. The show, titled Marqueurs de subduction (Markers of Subduction), combines animation, drawing, and sculpture to...
When you want to get to know a place, get to know its people. This seems to have been the adage of Adad Hannah, as he travelled to Saint Petersburg and the surrounding countryside in 2010. Equipped with only two cameras, he filmed and photographed ordinary Russians as they went about their daily lives....
Highlighting outstanding art shows in the Belgo from 2008 - 2011.
