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Repriser / Mending, exhibition view, Galerie de l’UQAM, Montréal, 2020. Photo : Galerie de l’UQAM
Rashid Johnson, The Garden, 2010; Asian Brain Trust, the house that Whiteness built, 2018. Photo : Galerie de l’UQAM
Kamissa Ma Koïta, Reenactment, Nous serons universel.le.s, 2018. Photo : courtesy of the artist & Galerie de l’UQAM
[En anglais]
There is a moment in
Mending when the viewer stands at the heart of the space, shouldered by two recently acquired photographic works by Kamissa Ma Koïta and Amartey Golding that centre on Black experiences, while across the room a series of five large paintings by Monique Régimbald-Zeiber magnify the epidermis of aging white skin over the names of the King’s Daughters in Nouvelle France. In tension, these works encapsulate an often strained inter-generational and cross-cultural discourse in Québec on the urgency of recognizing and supporting a broader range of artists in institutional collecting practices. ....

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