Délusions botaniques
Rihab Essayh’s project Délusions botaniques presents a virtual figure attempting to attract the viewer into her botanical enviroment which is sterile, ambiguous and artificial. The…
Exhibitions
NEGOTIATION
An experimental art film that showcases a poetic, abstract, and physical exploration of black masculinity through contemporary movement and archival audio.
Shadows to Silver/Nuance
“As an artist, I use my camera as a tool to look at people and my surroundings again for the first time. My objective is…
J’attends le temps/I wait for the time
Rojin Shafiei is an Iranian artist living and working in Montreal. In her videos, art is a vehicle for the translation of cultural messages and…
TransFormation
From a queer and decolonial perspective, I question the channels of social domination and the various forms of control in modern societies, focusing primarily on…
House of Venus / Wiggle 25 Year Anniversary Retrospective
Conceived by The House of Venus in 1994 with the Arts Council of Windsor, “Wiggle” was born as an annual runway and performance event where…
Parallel Realities: Micro-Mapping Exhibition by MAPP_MTL
PARALLEL REALITIES is the 3rd edition of the micro-mapping exhibition by MAPP_MTL. The works raise questions about our perceptions of reality by exploring alternative visions…
Invalid (leslueurs)
INVALID (leslueurs), the first solo exhibit of Montreal multidisciplinary artist Marilou Lyonnais Archambault, is a retrospective exhibit of these two most recent works and visual…
Filtrate
FILTRATE is the culmination of a two year multidisciplinary collaboration, exploring physical isolation and digital connectivity.
Noir Paintings
‘Noir Paintings’ is a subversion of the 1940’s-1950’s world the original posters inhabit. The scenes are reframed and scrutinized through a queer lens. In a…
Trinità
The underlying theme in my work is to explore the distance between presumption and certainty. By presenting a dimensional arrangement on a flat plane, it…
Two-Spirit Man/Two-Spirit Woman Call Home the Salmon w/Help
We exist as the collectively “woke” in epoch – a period of time in which striking things happen. We witness the last of seemingly omnipresent…
Canadian Animalize
This is the second Animalize collection which features colorful majestic animals with eyes that inspire. To animalize means to arouse sensuality found in nature. By…
Canadiana Icons
Celebrating Canadian Identity, Icons and contemporary Montreal artists is the inspiration behind this project. Never Apart’s Executive Director Michael Venus has hand picked ten queer…
Never Apart TV Season 1 Episodes 1-6
Never Apart TV is an arts and culture news program giving a much needed voice to queer artists.
Portraits
Austin Young presents Images from his long and celebrated career in portrait photography. Young is more accurately described as an image-maker: his projects illustrate the…
Cut-Outs
The work also serves as an investigation into my own identity and the dislocation I’ve inherited. My parents are from two countries and my grandparents…
The Ramboys: A Bookless Novel
The Ramboys: A Bookless Novel depicts a fictional promiscuous boy culture with mythic and mystic overtones. Likened to Beaudelaire’s bastard novel wherein there is no…
[DES]Équilibres
A perfect example of existential unravellings exposing the delicate balance of all life forms, the accident signals a disruption, a breakdown in meaning on the…
FEMALE
A collection of self-captioned portraits and audio recordings of women from around the world, FEMALE seeks to understand the female identity, searching for collective truths…