Mémoire de l’avenir
2021
A PUBLIC EXHIBITION OF ESTABLISHED AND EMERGING ARTISTS: A TIMELESS BRIDGE OF ENCOUNTER
L’Art dans la rue presents its exhibition for the fall 2021 season: Mémoire de l'avenir. A public exhibition of established and emerging artists: a timeless bridge of encounters.
This project was born from a desire to create connections between different generations of Quebec artists.
The exhibition, curated by Kama La Mackerel, is composed of 3 pairs, each one regrouping an established artist and an emerging artist. These intergenerational encounters lead us to immerse ourselves in Quebec art and to reflect on the progression of certain themes in the artistic imagination.
From November to March, walk through the streets of Montreal to see these artwork reproductions in Publicité Sauvage’s urban posting network, then scan the QR codes to live a complete experience by listening to the podcasts created for this project. This way, you will have the opportunity to learn more about the curatorial process behind the selection of the works.
Thanks to Marion Paquette, from Alignments , for the photographs of the works.
Photo: Val Bah
KAMA LA MACKEREL - BIOGRAPHY
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Kama La Mackerel is an award-winning Mauritian-Canadian multi-disciplinary artist, educator, writer, curator and literary translator who works within and across performance, photography, installations, textiles, digital art and literature. Kama’s work is grounded in the exploration of justice, love, healing, decoloniality, hybridity, cosmopolitanism, ancestral healing and self- and collective-empowerment. They believe that aesthetic practices have the power to build resilience and act as resistance to the status quo, thereby enacting an anticolonial praxis through cultural production.
They are the author ZOM-FAM (Metonymy Press) which was named a CBC Best Poetry Book, a Globe and Mail Best Debut, and was a finalist for the QWF Concordia University First Book Award and the Writers' Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Prize. World Literature Today called ZOM-FAM “a milestone in Mauritian literature."
Kama has exhibited, performed and lectured internationally and their writing in English, French and Kreol has appeared in publications both online and in print. In 2021, Kama was awarded the Canada Council for the Arts Joseph S. Stauffer Prize for emerging and mid-career artists in Visual Arts.
In 2021, Kama presented their new multimedia exhibition Queering the Is/land Body at La Galerie de l’UQAM as part of MOMENTA, Biennale de l’image.
The Pairs
SERGE CLEMENT, BAHAR TAHERI
ANDRÉ FOURNELLE, FRANTZ PATRICK HENRY
PETER GNASS, BÉATRICE BOILY
Podcasts
In these three episodes of the Mémoire de l’avenir podcast, Kama La Mackerel, the exhibition curator, invites the three artist pairs to talk about what they share as creatives. In French.
PHOTOS AND VIDEOS
Urban posting of Mémoire de l’avenir, 2021
Video: Taís da Costa
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