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Joanna Rajkowska “Painkillers” at l’étrangère, London

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Joanna Rajkowska, Uzi submachine gun, 2014, life-­size cast, powdered analgesic, polyurethane resin. ©Joanna Rajkowska. Courtesy ŻAK | BRANICKA, Berlin & l’étrangère, London

JOANNA RAJKOWSKA
PAINKILLERS

17 September – 24 October 2015
l’étrangère, London

Private view: Wednesday 16 September 2015, 6.30 – 8.30pm

l’étrangère is delighted to announce Painkillers, which brings into conversation new and existing sculptural works by the Polish artist, Joanna Rajkowska. Noted for her ambitious interventions in public space, as well as her objects, films, photography, installations and ephemeral actions, Rajkowska’s practice interrogates individual and collective bodies as politicised sites of historical, ideological and psychological conflict. For her inaugural exhibition at l’étrangère, Rajkowska unites two object-based series under the rubric, Painkillers, in order to explore the at times uncomfortable connections between modern warfare, healing systems and the practices of Western science.
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David Altmejd “FLUX” & Jon Rafman at Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal

David Altmejd, The Flux and The Puddle (detail), 2014. Photo: James Ewing. Image courtesy Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York. © David Altmejd

David Altmejd, The Flux and The Puddle (detail), 2014. Photo: James Ewing. Image courtesy Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York. © David Altmejd

David Altmejd, The Island (detail), 2011. Photo: Farzad Owrang. Courtesy The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, CT

David Altmejd, Sarah Altmejd, 2003. Photo: Lance Brewer. Courtesy Andrea Rosen Gallery New York

Jon Rafman, You Are Standing in an Open Field (Waterfall), 2015

Jon Rafman, You Are Standing in an Open Field (Gale), 2015

Jon Rafman, Still Life (Betamale), 2013

Jon Rafman, Mainsqueeze, 2014.

Jon Rafman, Kool Aid Man in Second Life, 2008-2011

Friday, 11September from 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. – First NOCTURNE of the fall season

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DAVID ALTMEJD “FLUX” and JON RAFMAN

Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal

20 June – 13 September 2015
*Special opening hours:
Friday, 11 September: 5.00pm to 2.00am – First NOCTURNE of the fall season
Saturday, 12 September: 10.00am to midnight – Extended hours
Sunday, 13 September: 10.00am to midnight – Extended hours

DAVID ALTMEJD: FLUX
Flux, Altmejd’s major survey exhibition, features some thirty works produced over the last fifteen years by this Montréal-born sculptor currently based in New York. The show also includes a site-specific mural and another new work, fresh out of the artist’s New York City studio.

Altmejd creates an organic yet phantasmagorical world that combines various forces of decay and regeneration in a fantastical life cycle. In describing his work, he says “a perpetual tension must be there, between the attractive and the repellent, like the two poles necessary to maintain vital force.”
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Lilah Fowler “Which Pixel am I standing on?”

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Lilah Fowler, Which Pixel am I standing on?, 2015. Courtesy the artist and Maria Stenfors, London

Maria Stenfors (London) presents…

LILAH FOWLER
WHICH PIXEL AM I STANDING ON?

15 – 29 July 2015, 6pm

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“In computing, traceroute is a computer network computer diagnostic tool for displaying the route (path) and measuring transit delays of packets across an Internet Protocol (IP) network. The history of the route is recorded as the round-trip times of the packets received from each successive host (remote node) in the route (path); the sum of the mean times in each hop indicates the total time spent to establish the connection. Traceroute proceeds unless all (three) sent packets are lost more than twice, then the connection is lost and the route cannot be evaluated.” [source Wikipedia]
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Emma Hart and Jonathan Baldock “SUCKERZ” at l’étrangère, London

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Emma Hart & Jonathan Baldock, SUCKERZ, 2015. Installation view. Image courtesy the artists and l’étrangère, London. Photo: Andy Keate

Emma Hart and Jonathan Baldock
SUCKERZ

25 June – 1 August 2015
l’étrangère, London

l’étrangère is delighted to announce SUCKERZ, a presentation of new sculptural works by British artists Emma Hart and Jonathan Baldock in their first exhibition together.

Gaping mouths, tongues, nipples, and arseholes occupy the gallery in an agitated display of bodies, orifices and foodstuffs across a messy and precarious banqueting table. SUCKERZ presents Hart’s and Baldock’s exaggerated forms in a carnivalesque conglomeration within the gallery: a series of protagonists and props that invite the viewer into the artists’ unofficial feast.
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Prévisualisations at Galerie Trois Points, Montréal

“No More Heroes” by Oli Sorenson. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Trois Points.

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PRÉVISUALISATIONS

16 May – 27 June 2015
Galerie Trois Points, Montréal

Artists: Jason Arsenault, John Boyle-Singfield, Oli Sorenson, Alex McLeod

Galerie Trois Points features guest artists Jason Arsenault, John Boyle-Singfield and Oli Sorenson along Alex McLeod’s works in Prévisualisations. The selected works reveal certain truths about how virtualization – through the appropriation and distorted use of software, applications, movies, files and digital technologies – may impact our daily life and perception of reality.
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Chloe Lum & Yannick Desranleau (Séripop) “The Face Stayed East and the Mouth Went West (elements)” at Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Montréal

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Installation view. Chloe Lum & Yannick Desranleau (Séripop), The Face Stayed East and the Mouth Went West (elements), 2015. Courtesy the artists and Galerie Hughes Charbonneau, Montreal. Photo: Guy L’Heureux

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CHLOE LUM & YANNICK DESRANLEAU (SÉRIPOP)
THE FACE STAYED EAST AND THE MOUTH WENT WEST (ELEMENTS)

2 May – 6 June 2015
Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Montréal

>> PERFORMANCE << Friday 29 May 2015, 17h30
Choreography by Sarah Wendt
with Sarah Wendt, Katie Ewald + guest performers

For their sophomore exhibition at Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Séripop – the collaborative practice of Chloe Lum and Yannick Desranleau – will be exhibiting a new presentation of multi-disciplinary work. Known for their large scale sculptural installations constructed of brightly coloured – sometimes printed – paper materials, The Face Stayed East and the Mouth Went West (elements) exhibition distinguishes itself by referencing that sculptural work and its concepts through photo-based installation and performance.
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Yasmin Mueller “Gosh, I Fantasise” at Maria Stenfors, London

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Yasmin Mueller, Portrait Skygirl (open eyes), 2015. Courtesy Maria Stenfors, London.

YASMIN MUELLER
GOSH, I FANTASISE

6 May – 13 June 2015
Maria Stenfors, London

In Gosh, I Fantasise, Mueller continues her exploration of the muse through sculptural objects, with an installation that oscillates between the dreamlike and a hardedge reality.

A series of wall and floor sculptures reveal graphic abstractions intertwined with meaning. Black denim is fashioned into geometric shapes, akin to a soft skeleton or a labyrinth of guts, which starkly puncture the white cube gallery space, claiming its own domain. Mueller’s hand makes the soft material behave like hard metal or more traditional sculpture, and the resulting installation presents a tension between external structure and the inner world.
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Polyphonies at Optica, Montréal

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© Anne-Marie Ouellet, Penser le futur (2013-2015) Performative installation / Installation performative. View of the exhibition / Vue de l'exposition, "Polyphonies" Courtesy of the artist / Avec l'aimable permission de l'artiste. Photo : Paul Litherland

© Emmanuelle Léonard, La taverne (2015) HD Video, color, sound/ Vidéo HD, couleur, son, 11 min 50 s. Courtesy of the artist / Avec l'aimable permission de l'artiste. Photo : Paul Litherland

© Katarina Zdjelar, Don’t Do It Wrong (2007) Video, color, sound / Vidéo, couleur, son, 10 min 13 s. Courtesy of the artist / Avec l'aimable permission de l'artiste. Photo : Paul Litherland

© Sophie Castonguay, La part du lion (2015) Performative installation: 5 artworks, recorded audio track, reciter / Installation performative : cinq tableaux, enregistrement audio et récitante. View of the exhibition / Vue de l'exposition, "Polyphonies" Courtesy of the artist / Avec l'aimable permission de l'artiste. Photo : Paul Litherland

© Kaya Behkalam & Azin Feizabadi, The Negotiation (2010) 2 chanels HD Video, color and black and white, sound / Vidéo HD 2 canaux, couleur et n/b, son, 38 min. 04 s. Courtesy of the artist / Avec l'aimable permission de l'artiste. Photo : Paul Litherland

© Dave Ball & Oliver Walker, Dinner Party (2011-2015) Participatory live art project accompanied by a video installation / Projet participatif accompagné d’une installation vidéo. Courtesy of the artist / Avec l'aimable permission de l'artiste. Photo : Paul Litherland

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POLYPHONIES

18 April – 13 June 2015
Optica, Montréal

Curated by Véronique Leblanc

Artists: Anne-Marie Ouellet, Emmanuelle Léonard, Katarina Zdjelar, Kaya Behkalam & Azin Feizabadi, Sophie Castonguay, Dave Ball & Oliver Walker

Polyphonies is an exhibition that stages a plurality of voices while bringing together the work of eight artists including two duos. Whether based on documentary approaches (interviews, surveys) resembling anthropological field studies or revolving around the invention of fictional situations in which archives of various kinds are played out, the orchestration of speech in the artists’ propositions creates a disjunctive gap with the documented reality. They appropriate ways of telling stories (in past, present, and future tenses) to bring out issues in the ideological and identity-related constructions that take shape through speech.
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Nelson Henricks “A Lecture on Art” at Dazibao, Montréal

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Nelson Henricks, A Lecture on Art (2015) Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Dazibao, Montreal. Photo: Veronica Mockler

NELSON HENRICKS
A LECTURE ON ART
25 April – 20 June 2015
Dazibao, Montréal

In a society in which the workings of communications technology are often invisible, the act of revealing its operation can be socially and politically enabling. Works of art created with technology can foster understanding of the interplay between technology, social context and subjectivity. – NH

An artist, writer, musician and sometimes curator, Nelson Henricks is a key figure of video art. For more than thirty years, he has developed a rich body of work addressing issues such as the visual representation of sound, the passage of time, the inherency of slippage in translation – from one language to another, from one medium to another, from one concept to another – and the semantic fields revealed by these slips. Henricks’ work ranges from single-channel videos to complex multi-channel installations, as well as projects that incorporate various other techniques and materials.
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Reynold Reynolds “Almost Six Pieces” at Dazibao, Montréal

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Reynold Reynolds “Almost Six Pieces” Exhibition View at Dazibao. Courtesy the artist and Dazibao, Montréal

REYNOLD REYNOLDS
ALMOST SIX PIECES

19 February – 18 April 2015
Dazibao, Montreal

Almost Six Pieces brings together, for the first time in Canada, five video installations by the American artist Reynold Reynolds. In a scrupulously controlled chaos, exacerbated by the abundance of references – historical, artistic, scientific, etc. – Reynolds somehow develops an aesthetic of “unease”. This unease is maintained by a persistent confusion between bluff and reality and is fed by unexpressed and unacknowledged torments. Without being apocalyptic or completely dystopian, the five works brought together here foretell a world bordering on disaster, making the very idea of progress the allegory of ruin.
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