Archives des Quebec City

MARTIN BUREAU – FEINDRE L’ÉDEN, POUR UN TEMPS LE CHAOS – FROM MAY 16, 2025 TO- JANUARY 4, 2026

2 April 2025

MAKE PLACE FOR MARTIN BUREAU FEINDRE L'ÉDEN, POUR UN TEMPS LE CHAOS FROM MAY 16, 2025 TO JANUARY 4, 2026 QUEBEC AIRE PUBLIQUE INDOOR EXHIBITION THE EXPOSITION FEINDRE L'ÉDEN, POUR UN TEMPS LE CHAOSA large circular table in the centre of a room recalls board meetings or diplomatic summits. But the charred chairs around it bear the scars of a disaster. A screen on the facing wall shows a sequence shot of the same table, with eight people defiantly staring each other down with pinched smiles and...

PIPILOTTI RIST – OPEN MY GLADE (FLATTEN) – FROM MAY 16, 2025 TO JANUARY 4, 2026

2 April 2025

MAKE PLACE FOR PIPILOTTI RISTOPEN MY GLADE (FLATTEN)FROM MAY 16, 2025 TO JANUARY 4, 2026 QUEBEC AIRE PUBLIQUE INDOOR EXHIBITIONTHE EXPOSITION OPEN MY GLADE (FLATTEN) Open My Glade is a series of one-minute films designed for large-scale projection on building facades and advertising screens. Playing off highly glamourized commercial images, Rist presses her face against the screen in a disturbing performance of beauty, contorting her features and smearing make-up across the surface as she...

PIPILOTTI RIST – EVER IS OVER ALL – FROM MAY 16, 2025 TO JANUARY 4, 2026

2 April 2025

MAKE PLACE FOR PIPILOTTI RISTEVER IS OVER ALLFROM MAY 16, 2025 TO JANUARY 4, 2026 QUEBEC AIRE PUBLIQUE INDOOR EXHIBITIONTHE EXPOSITION EVER IS OVER ALL Ever Is Over All is a vibrant, pixelated video installation of fantastical rebellion. Two superimposed projections juxtapose close-ups of tropical flowers with a scene of a woman strolling carefree along an urban sidewalk, carrying one long stemmed bloom. She flippantly swings the flower, smashing the windows of parked cars as a smiling...

PIPILOTTI RIST – SIP MY OCEAN – FROM MAY 16, 2025 TO JANUARY 4, 2026

2 April 2025

MAKE PLACE FOR PIPILOTTI RISTSIP MY OCEANFROM MAY 16, 2025 TO JANUARY 4, 2026 QUEBEC AIRE PUBLIQUE INDOOR EXHIBITIONTHE EXPOSITION SIP MY OCEAN Experience the hypnotic depths of Sip My Ocean. This immersive video installation by Pipilotti Rist transports audiences into a kaleidoscopic, aquatic paradise. The work unfolds saturated, dreamlike images of waves, coral, and household objects slowly sinking into the deep. A woman in a bikini floats and swims, sensually merging with the marine...

ISAAC CORDAL – FOLLOW THE LEADERS – MAY 16, 2025 – JANUARY 4, 2026

2 April 2025

MAKE PLACE FOR ISAAC CORDALFOLLOW THE LEADERSFROM MAY 16, 2025 TO JANUARY 4, 2026 QUEBEC AIRE PUBLIQUE INDOOR EXHIBITIONTHE EXPOSITION FOLLOW THE LEADERS Isaac Cordal’s installation Follow the Leaders is a powerful commentary on the current state of western societies, as we face the ravages of unchecked capitalism and looming threat of environmental catastrophe. In a mise-en-scène on the gallery floor, miniature effigies of men in suits and ties grapple with some kind of disaster. These...

ISAAC CORDAL – CEMENT ECLIPSES – AS OF MAY 16, 2025

2 April 2025

MAKE PLACE FOR ISAAC CORDALCEMENT ECLIPSESAS OF MAY 16, 2025QUEBEC PUBLIC ART OUTDOOR ARTWORKTHE EXPOSITION CEMENT ECLIPSES Isaac Cordal creates urban eclipses by inserting his tiny characters into the city’s unexpected nooks and crannies. As you wander the streets, you might spot them on the ground itself or higher up, tucked into the recess of a facade or peeking out over a ledge. Through their postures and expressions, these miniature businessmen convey a sense of incipient awareness. The...

MOBA – MUSEUM OF BAD ART – Permanent exhibition

26 October 2024

MAKE WAY FORMOBA MUSEUM OF BAD ARTPERMANENT EXHIBITIONQUEBEC AIRE PUBLIQUE INDOOR EXHIBITIONTHE EXPOSITIONMUSEUM OF BAD ART The Museum Of Bad Art brings together the best of art that is just “too bad to be ignored”. The paintings in the MOBA collection, whether purchased in thrift stores or yard sales, rescued from the trash, or donated by their creators, represent sincere attempts to create meaningful art. However, somewhere along the way, something has gone terribly wrong in each of them....