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Exhibition: Through Secrets: The Art of Creating Spaces Between the Lines
Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges (Montreal) December 15 2022 – March 5 2023 Curator: Erandy Vergara-Vargas This exhibition revolves around the intricate, unresolved, and contradictory nature of human identities, and the secrets we can still keep from search engines and social media. Artists Adam Basanta, Sophia Brueckner, Dayna Danger, August Klintberg, and Cheryl Sim explore…
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Exhibition: Eco(Systems) of Hope
MTL Connect Exhibition @Anteism Books [Montreal] October 18-30, 2022 Curator: Erandy Vergara-Vargas MTL Connect’s 2022 Art Programme engages the present ecological moment and creative imaginaries for the future. From October 18th to the 30th, 2022, local and international artists and researchers explore hope, a powerful stimulus for rethinking relationality, community-building and multi-species survival on Earth.
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Exhibition: Pavitra Wickramasinghe – La mer / In a blue while
DRAC (Drummonville) Exhibition: July 9 – August 28 2022 Curator: Erandy Vergara-Vargas Do you remember the first time you saw the ocean? Or do you remember what it is like to return to a coast and observe the sea expanding before your eyes? What does your memory sound like? Does it have a smell? Do…
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Some Universe: Internet Spaces in a Postdigital World
Eastern Bloc, Sight + Sound Festival [Online] June – August 2021 “Imagine you are falling. But there is no ground,” wrote Hito Steyerl in The Wretched of the Screen (2012). I often dream about that. I’ve also daydreamed that I would love to experience an artwork defying Cartesian space, linear perspective and figurativism – where…
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Critical Proximity: Something about Human Connections that Can Happen When There Is a Fissure
Online exhibition produced by OBORO [Montreal] March 15 – May 14 2021 I don’t share personal things online; here is something I am sharing. This exhibition is the result of an invitation to curate an online show for OBORO. Throughout the pandemic, many artist friends have shared their creative works and personal social media posts,…
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What Has Been Seen – Eva & Franco Mattes
Fondation Phi pour l’art contemporain [Montreal] November 2019 – March 2020 With humour and irreverence, Eva & Franco Mattes dissect, test, and redefine the boundaries of art and the Internet. Since the mid-1990s, the artistic duo has probed and engaged with the way contemporary societies have shaped the networked world and, perhaps more importantly, how…
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ISEA2020 Online: Why Sentience?
ISEA2020 Online and Onsite Programme October 13 – 18 2020 ISEA’s 2020 artistic program explores the infinitely large and the infinitely small worlds of Sentience — feeling-sensing-making sense. There were to be seven exhibitions across various venues for the ISEA2020 artistic program, until the city’s shutdown in March 2020, here as elsewhere, of all non-essential…
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Speculative Cultures
Anna-Maria & Stephen Kellen Gallery, Parsons School of Design [New York] February 7 – April 14 2019 Curators: Tina Sauerländer, Peggy Schoenegge and Erandy Vergara-Vargas Cultures have never existed in a set state. They are all in constant flux brought about by social, economic, and technological developments. The global flow of people forges change, adaptation…