Overview of works to see this summer in art centers and outdoors.
Gaspé artist fascinated by the beluga whale and worried about its survival, Maryse Goudreau is exhibiting her works until July 22 at the Foreman Art Gallery at Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke. In the Eye of the Beluga will particularly appeal to young audiences.
Arsenal puts the spotlight on Sabrina Ratté, a formidable digital artist. Until August 13, Futurs spéculaires offers 18 digital works. A virtual world to discover.
Salle Alfred-Pellan, in Laval, presents two exhibitions that explore questions of identity: The weight of our myths, by Surabhi Ghosh, on the divisions that separate us from each other, and Résurgences, by Sarah Madgin, a photographic work on memory from family images.
The Guild offers, until July 16, works by 20 Inuit artists, including Shuvinai Ashoona, Itee Pootoogook, Ningiukulu Teevee, Nicotye Samayualie, Darcie Bernhardt and Kablusiak, on the themes of interior spaces and northern life.
In Saint-Hyacinthe, Expression presents the digital art exhibition Les paysage autres, curated by William Jourdain, with Myriam Boucher (Quebec), Thomas Köner (Germany), Marilou Lyonnais Archambault (Quebec) and Stefan Paulus (Switzerland).
The Phi Center will broadcast, from August 1, Sex, desires and data, a (paying) course that invites the public to step out of their comfort zone and to question the codes that influence our sexualities… program !
The paintings of artist Étienne Côté (1959-2022), born in Saint-Laurent, are exhibited outdoors all summer long on boulevard Décarie, from place Rodolphe-Rousseau to parc Beaudet.
In addition, thanks to an Underground Art initiative, Ubisoft Montreal has been hosting since May, on its facade (at the corner of Saint-Viateur and Saint-Dominique streets), a solo by Isabelle Lapierre.
Atelier Silex and its digital studio Cobalt present Osmose, a video mapping on three facades of the Manoir de Tonnancour of the Galerie d’art du Parc, in Trois-Rivières, from June 29 to July 9, as soon as night falls. Note that the Biennale internationale d’estampe de Trois-Rivières is back on June 17 in five exhibition venues, including Atelier Silex.
Going to Mexico this summer? The Montreal gallery Occurence is organizing a collective exhibition there until June 18 in Guadalajara, then until September 8, at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Querétaro, three hours north of Mexico City. The exhibition Territories Under Observation, curated by gallery owner Lili Michaud, includes works by Eruoma Awashish, Michel Boulanger, Renée Duval, Jessica Houston, Guy Laramée, Yoanis Menge, Normand Rajotte and Anne Ramsden.
