Week 11: September 23rd
Gallery Weekend Montreal, The Page Issue 3, an addendum to Week 10, and more.
Welcome to Community Service, a biweekly newsletter featuring a curated selection of art and design events in Montreal. September 26th - 29th is Gallery Weekend in Montreal, so there are art events happening in every corner of the city (in 27 different galleries, to be exact) . I’ve decided to stick to openings for my sanity, but to discover everything going on, head over to their Instagram or Website.
This edition covers events happening during the last week of September and the first of October.
Vernissage: Déliquescence
September 26th (5-10pm) - Fonderie Darling
This group exhibition at Fonderie Darling delves into the concept of entropy, reflecting on the degradation of matter and the transition from an ordered state to chaos. The works on display illustrate metamorphosis, whether through chemical or biological processes or material alteration, capturing the beauty in decomposition and dissolution.
Vernissage: Altération Générale
September 26th (6-8pm) - Chris Andrews Gallery
Curated by artist Alli Melanson, Altération Générale is a group show featuring Bonny Poon, Andrew Hoekstra, John Knight, Liza Lacroix, Craig Jun Li, Jackson Slattery, Justin Tenney.
Vernissage: Comment Voisiner?
September 26th (5pm) - GU
Who has the power to make choices about a city? For whom is the city built, and who has the right to inhabit it? Comment Voisiner invites you to reflect on the concept of "neighboring" as the smallest form of establishing a common good. The exhibition examines the materials that shape our daily lives. Through the lens of a past, present, future, and hypothetical space-time, the artists consider and reclaim what gives form to our habitats.
Vernissage: Céline Bureau Studio Residency Exhibition
September 26th (6-9pm) - Céline Bureau
The Céline Bureau studio residency culminates with an exhibition showcasing the research, experimentations and artworks of the 6 artists in residence (Riad El Mahmoudy & Liz Waterman, Juan Pablo Hernandez Gutierrez, Rania Lardjane, Emma Ongman, Camille-Zoé Valcourt-Synnott). With a profound insight into their distinct communities and cultural narratives, their projects invite us into their personal exploration of material and immaterial connections to our loved ones, our surroundings, and our identities.
Launch Party: The Page Issue 3
September 26th (7pm-midnight) - Bar Wills
The Page is a free, one-page, innovatively sentimental print publication that showcases writing and art from Montreal and beyond. Their third issue will be out on September 26th, coupled with an exciting launch event at Bar Wills.
Vernissage: Silver Linings by Colin Canary
September 27th (5-8pm) - Concordia MFA Gallery
Silver Linings looms adjacently with notions of the plasticity of memory and recurring dreams. Through the use of crude printing techniques, the painted surfaces reflect a physicality of the abandoned and forgotten yet, all the while, bring forth a multiperspectivity of the surreal environment of the human condition.
Vernissage: Les Corps Complexe by Delphine Huguet
October 3rd - Galerie Robertson Arès
Les Corps Complexes is rooted in an analytical, societal, behavioral, and feminist exploration that invites both intimate and collective reflection on gender relations. Through their coexistence in space, Delphine Huguet’s works address the impacts of bodily perceptions, alongside power dynamics related to gender identities within contemporary and past phallocentric space-times. Les Corps Complexes therefore focuses on the internalized patterns regarding the role bodies play in social, intimate, and seductive relationships, through an examination of deeply encoded lived experiences and emotions.
Launch: Jardins Racines
October 5th - Location TBA
A partnership between Studio Ascètes and the Armand Vaillancourt Cultural Center, Jardins Racine began last May as a two week residency in Kamouraska. Eight artists created works using recycled materials such as plastic, metal, ceramic, and organic materials found at the site. The official launch of Jardins Racine is happening on October 5th, with an exhibition featuring the works of the residents as well as other artists to celebrate the event.
I’m adding an addendum this time around because I missed a lot of cool openings in the last edition and think you deserve to know that these shows exist. Maybe this will become a new part of the newsletter, maybe not.
Espace Loulou - centre des sciences punkLab
September 20th - September 26th
Pangée - Pluck
September 12th - November 2nd
Pangée - Khey by Fatine-Violette Sabiri
September 12th - November 2nd
Pangée - Gymnopedies by Fiona Nguyen
September 12th - November 2nd
Bradley Ertaskiran - Localize Affect by Jeremy Shaw
September 19th - November 2nd
Plein Sud Centre D’exposition - P pour Palestine
September 21st - December 14th
If you have an art or design-related event you would like to include in future editions of the newsletter, you can send us a DM or email communityservmag@gmail.com
See you around.