Art Marathon: Art Souterrain 2012

Montreal is well known for its underground city. During the long Canadian winter, people get around the city’s downtown area, from one tunnel to another, without ever going out into the frosty air. Between 25 February through 11 March Montreal’s underground city was hosting the fourth edition of Art Souterrain (Subterranean Art, in French), a contemporary art event inaugurated in 2009 by Frédéric Loury, director of Galerie [SAS]. This year Art Souterrain showcased 140 art projects, including installations, photography, video, performance and permanent public art, all under the theme of “Passageways”. Art Souterrain has been expanding the number and volume of projects every year, to now in its fourth edition it covers over seven kilometers of underpass, with invited artists from as far as Paris and Calgary. Here are some works that caught our imagination.
 


Mathieu Grenier “Dans le Cube Blanc (O’Doherty) / Inside the White Cube”
 


Nathalie Quagliotto “Maturity Bend”
 


Jennifer Campbell “Fleshed out”




Brandon Vickerd “Le passager”
 


Simon Bouchard “Hi There!”
 


Jacques Desruisseaux “Devenez Membre”



Karine Payette “Issue”
 


Megan Wilson & Blaine Campbell “Chase”



Hélène Rochette “Les Terriers – autres territoires”
 


Pierre Blache “Montréal – Kolkata”
 


Angelika Markul “Monte Negro 2012”
 



Bertrand R. Pitt “Travellings”



Martine Frossard & Isabelle Guichard “La Marelle”
 


Katherine L. Lannin “The Pile Project”
 


Rebekah Miller “Building my House”
 


Jeffrey Spalding “Neues Bild / Nouvelle Image: Montréal”
 


Jacynthe Carrier “A l’errance”
 


François Quévillon “Chronoscopies”
 



Video booths were set up in different corners of Art Souterrain. This is a booth by Danny Singer “Rockyford”
 

Credit: All the photos by M-KOS
 

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