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In an attitude of intuitive discovery, Manon De Pauw is particularly attentive to what emerges under the camera's gaze. The manifest presence of the body in the work, the link between micro and macro, and light as a source of affect are at the heart of her approach. In addition to her photography and video work, she regularly collaborates with artists in dance, theater, literature, media arts and music, developing a singular approach to the performed image.

L’index is a theoretically endless project, which consists of capturing the entire spectrum of visible colors in photography. To do this, Martin Désilets uses multiple ways to isolate the color-light.

At Galerie B-312, Chloë Lum and Yannick Desranleau present an exhibition featuring a sung and danced correspondence between an anonymous contemporary interlocutor and the Brazilian author Clarice Lispector (1920-1977).

As directors of artist-run centers in Montreal and Rouyn-Noranda, and guest curators at Galerie d'art Desjardins in Drummondville, Marthe Carrier and Matthieu Dumont have chosen to explore this triangulation: how is contemporary art lived and deployed in our regions? 

Originally from China and based in Toronto for six years now, the curator Yan Zhou proposes Breathing, a search and creation project bringing together Chinese and Canadian artists. The project addresses environmental, political, economic and social concerns resulting from the smog phenomenon.

Learn more about works and artists of the Breathing exhibition. 

eXcentrer's curators Marthe Carrier, Stéphanie Chabot, Emmanuelle Choquette and Émilie Granjon, directors of Galerie B-312, Skol, Arprim and Circa invite you to this singular event which takes place from September 2019 to May 2020 at the Galerie d'art Desjardins de Drummondville.

The trompe-l’œil is nested in the time of emergence, the time where the surprise effect leads us to poetic contemplation. It is part of a bitter-sweet seduction strategy motivated by a double game of illusion and disillusionment, truth and falsehood. The exhibition Dans l’intimité du leurre presents installational, sculptural and pictorial works that play with the thresholds of sensory perception and outsmarts the senses. 

For her first solo exhibition in Montreal, Lisa Duroux will occupy the showcases of Daigneault and Schofield’s studio with a new series of ceramic sculptures. The Japanese word shibari evokes the idea of captivity and a certain treatment of materiality.

Since 2004 Michel Daigneault and Stephen Schofield have offered the showcases of their studio on Rachel street to fellow artists to present their work. Artists occupy the windows for a two-month period and have used the space in a wide range of ways such as an exhibition or installation space.

Conversations Montréal | Lyon was initiated by curators Marthe Carrier and Chloé Grondeau and spearheaded by Galerie B-312 in Montreal. It has since become an avenue of exchange between Lyon and Montreal, with a particular emphasis on showcasing the local art scene in each city.

Richard Deschênes creates enigmatic images proposing a reflection on time, duration and sublimation of the banal, while also giving his works a poetic dimension. Between drawing and paintings, the artworks of Les Atomistes cannot be easily deciphered.

The first part of Statuer. Les figures du socle was recently presented at Action Art Actuel artist-run centre (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu). With new artists and strictly pre-existing works, the second part take place at Galerie B-312. 

The event Pierre Ayot is a retrospective offering different perspectives on the practice of Pierre Ayot. This fall, take the opportunity to see several works, some never shown before, of this significant artist in the art history of Quebec.

Annie Descôteaux employs the technique of cutting. Although her first works were narrative, she gradually turned to a more formal research, expressing her attraction to pure lines, yet without neglecting the figure.

Steve DeBruyn offers works that revive popular culture, in what is colourful, patched, alive and moving. To make his large-scale sculptural spaces, he employs techniques and materials usually associated with the field of construction and renovation and overturns them. 

The artists' investigations shed light on the paradoxes of photography: between verisimilitude and hoax, between documentary and staging, between snapshot and temporal compression.-Some propositions bear witness to the physical limits of the medium.

Véronique Ducharme uses a hunting camera triggered when it detects movement or heat. You could say that this is a type of animal photography where animals produce ghoslty images devoid of human presence. 

Mainly executed with molding technique, Chloé Desjardins's work raises questions about the object's and artwork's nature and status through an iconography relating to the packaging and the content/container polarity.

Taking the form of an immersive installation made up of five luminous objects interconnected with each other, Rosalie D. Gagné's installation forms a complex tangle that recalls a neurons network. 

To mark the 20 years of Galerie B-312 differently, about twenty artists gather and offer us an unprecedented way to access and share art.Jusqu’à épuisement des stocks/While Supplies/Last is a collective project of contextual art on USB key.

Consisting of 27 works, this event highlights the dynamism and versatility of Galerie B-312, which has become, over time, a reference on the Montréal’s contemporary art scene. 

Every year, Galerie B-312 invites you to support the activities of the centre by acquiring a work of art. Thus, you directly support the dissemination, recognition and the impact of current artistic practices.

Both artists employ a writing system that have become their drawing instrument: Campbell writes freehand or with a stamp while Deyo uses the countless possibilities of the spirograph.

Every year, Galerie B-312 invites you to support the activities of the centre by acquiring a work of art. Thus, you directly support the dissemination, recognition and the impact of current artistic practices.

Yoshiaki Kaihatsu’s installation continues his longstanding material approach that works with waste or garbage as construction material. He has recently been producing environments constructed and altered by the accumulation of Styrofoam packing material.

Each time, the works of Raphaëlle de Groot leave behind various kinds of objects that she conserves meticulously. For this exhibition, day after day, the artist will devote her time to cutting, dissecting, crumbling, disintegrating and pulverizing these objects.

Marie-Suzanne Désilets addresses the issue of emotional deprivation and their substitutes. Charbon et turbobecomes a pretext for the invention of a story, an intrigue where imagination and reality, phantasms and everyday life merge, raise the limits of the suggestive and decency.

Every year, Galerie B-312 invites you to support the activities of the centre by acquiring a work of art. Thus, you directly support the dissemination, recognition and the impact of current artistic practices.

The exhibition Soigner son langage by Éric Desmarais brings together his oulipian machines made of a steel structure and a plexiglas surface with a proliferation of multicolored electric wires, mechanisms and electronic circuits.

Martin Désilets's work consists of digital prints of photographs taken in 2001 and 2002 in Beirut and its surroundings, postcards of Lebanon with oriental decorative motifs, and small paintings referring to pivotal moments of modernity.

Inspired by the world of the RISK board game, Éric Ladouceur, curator, conceived this exhibition project and invited the artists to participate in the utopian establishment of a new world order by using the Dymaxion world map.

Galerie B-312 is pleased to present in its small room a set of engraved plates by Julie Doucet. Among the works on view, we recognize those that where used for the publication of Melek, a book that Julie Doucet wanted at the border of story and image.

A myth in particular haunts Gaulejac, and with good reason, since it concerns the status of the artist. Is the artist like the glider enthusiast? Does it glide quietly through society, exploiting the rising winds to its advantage?

The exhibition brings together a series of images that immediately suggest the landscape, either by format or motif. Francine Desmeules has captured moving landscapes. The shutter release speeds were slow enough to reduce the referent to chromatic differences that became increasingly intertwined.