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Oya’wih means “it tastes good” in the Wendat language. As part of her master’s degree in art history, Michèle St-Amand is interested in the uncolonized sexuality of Indigenous women in an alternate history in which colonization never occurred. The curator invited Indigenous artists from various Nations and generations to reflect on the issue.

Kuh Del Rosario engages with places she inhabits using materials found, collected and saved from the everyday. This practice of attunement has developed into art-making as a form of grounding ritual. Drawing from her diasporic experience as a hyphenated Canadian, she is interested in different expressions of time, the malleability of history and the factors that influence identity all contribute to the patina in her work.—An unhusked grain of rice fills the whole house, is the English translation of an Akean riddle, Sang uhay nga paeay nakaeuob it baeay.

Manon De Pauw, Lueurs oniriques, une critique d'exposition rédigée par Maxence Croteau, à lire dans le numéro 126 du magazine Ciel variable.

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.

The Lueurs Oniriques project follows a long-standing collaboration between Manon De Pauw and choreographer Pierre-Marc Ouellette. During a summer residency at B-312, with a team of performers, the two partners will investigate different states of the body - such as hypnagogy, frenzy and obsession - echoing Nicolas Bernier's music. The danced segments and performative gestures will intertwine in the creative process and in the exhibition set-up, which will host in situ performances.

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.

The choice of Freize : Momenta When Nature Feels, one of four exhibitions not to be missed this fall in America. Chloë Lum and Yannick Desranleau's exhibition was chosen to announce the four exhibitions.
Congratulations to Chloë and Yannick!
Congratulations to the entire Momenta team!
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To read in Le Devoir of September 26, 2021, a review by Marie-Ève ​​Charron on the current biennial in several venues in Montreal. Momenta : la nature là où vous ne l'attendez pas.

“If, at this point, this biennale has not succeeded in making you feel and feel again, analyze far from preconceptions, you will have to go to the B-312 gallery. The work of Chloë Lum and Yannick Desranleau, from Montreal, revisits the world of Clarice Lispector in a musical comedy as enjoyable as it is hard-hitting. »

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).

Jérôme Delgado wrote an article in Le Devoir on the exhibition Les isolés, of Mathieu Lévesque, presented until March 20, 2021.

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? 

As part of the Breathing exhibition, Galerie B-312 invites you to a discussion panel with the curator Yan Zhou and artists Alexandre David, Mireille Lavoie and Yam Lau. 

Galerie B-312 hosts the Traghetto collective. Composed of Vincent Barras, medical historian and sound art specialist, and Jacques Demierre, pianist and composer, they will together produce sound and vocal performances. 

Learn more about works and artists of the Breathing exhibition. 

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.

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.

Galerie B-312 is pleased to welcome Traghetto, a Swiss duo who presents two sound poetry performances Interpreting BarDem Interpreting and Voicing through Saussure. 

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.

We invite you to come and take a look at our last workshop with the members of Action Centre-Ville. This season, it is Guillaume Boudrias-Plouffe’s turn to invite a dozen of participants to explore contemporary art through assemblage of objects and performance.

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. 

Academics, artists and members of Hexagram | CIAM participating in this two-part international seminar will question the forces of transformation occurring at the limits of matter, be they physical, residual, biological or electronic. 

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.