Week 5: July 1st
An ode to nightlife at Espace Loulou, a two-hour long exhibition in an undisclosed location, a sunny summer poetry reading, and more.
Welcome to Community Service, a biweekly newsletter featuring a curated selection of art and design events in Montreal. This edition of the newsletter covers events happening the first weeks of July.
Vernissage: I WANT MORE LIFE by Antoine Giroux
July 4th (6-10pm) - Espace Loulou
Despite having only officially met recently, I’ve been following Antoine Giroux’s work ever since I unknowingly mined his photobook for content back in 2021. This marks his first solo exhibition in two parts: I WANT MORE LIFE (July 4th to 8th) and What remains stays still (July 11th to 15th).
The first part of the exhibition takes us into nightlife, a world where movement and texture dominate. Antoine Giroux's photographs capture stolen moments, nocturnal encounters, evening rituals, and vernacular objects of celebration. The viewer is immersed in an effervescent world, where each photo is an open door to a personal and collective experience. (Text by Philippe Bourdeau).
Event: Bérénice’s Stomach
July 4th (5-7pm) - Location on RSVP
Curated by Marie Ségolène of Espace Maurice, Bérénice’s Stomach is a duo show of new works by Julien Parant Marquis & Fran Williams. This event is RSVP only, which you can do by dm’ing Espace Maurice on Instagram (location revealed upon rsvp).
Poetry Reading: Just for Fun Summer Reading
July 4th (7:30pm) - Dye Jardin Papillon
A fun fun summer poetry reading featuring cake, music by Josh Boguski, and readings by Zoe Imani Sharpe, Nick Maione, Emily Zuberec, Sarah Burgoyne, Olivia Wood, and Jay Ritchie.
Vernissage: Ellipses by Angela Grauerholz
July 4th (5pm) - Blouin Division
With a professional biography as impressive as Grauerholz’s, it’s no doubt this show is going to be one to remember. More details to come!
Vernissage: Serge Murphy
July 4th (5pm) - Blouin Division
At times a landscape with porous boundaries, at other times an enigmatic dance of unusual figures, Serge Murphy’ universe unfolds in a swirl of eclectic objects, each as calmly understated as the next, which suddenly take flight as they encounter one another.
Murphy’s work is interpretable at the same level of consciousness that allowed it to be made: a realm of possibility, association, and intuition. Our memory is fluid and capricious, much like Murphy’s forms themselves. We think we see, or remember, something, and in the next moment it may escape us, be elaborated on, or transform into another thing entirely.
Vernissage: A Nearly Tangible Fiction
July 11th (5pm) - Patel Brown Gallery
Curated by Roxanne Arsenault and Joséphine Rivard, ‘A Nearly Tangible Fiction ’ is a group show featuring works by: Olga Abeleva, Malik McKoy, Mégane Voghell, Ayam Yaldo, Frances Adair Mckenzie, and Muriel Ahmarani Jaouich.
Vernissage: Soft Focus
July 11th - Bradley Ertaskiran
I’m a little bit in advance for this show at Bradley Ertaskiran, so there are more details to come. But for now, I offer you this: Soft Focus is a group exhibition featuring Sonya Derviz, Merveille Kelekele Kelekele, Rachel Lancaster, Lyne Lapointe, Sam Lipp, Nour Malas, Karice Mitchell, Athena Papadopoulos, Sequoia Scavullo, Shahin Sharafaldin, and Manuel Axel Strain.
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See you around.