International Garden Festival 2021: Magic lies outside
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Choose your Own Adventure Balmori Associates [Noémie Lafaurie-Debany, Javier Gonzalez-Campana, Simon Escabi, Chris Liao, Cristina Preciado, landscapers and urban planners] New York, United-States
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International Garden Festival 2021: Magic lies outside
International Garden Festival / Reford Gardens
Choose your Own Adventure Balmori Associates [Noémie Lafaurie-Debany, Javier Gonzalez-Campana, Simon Escabi, Chris Liao, Cristina Preciado, landscapers and urban planners] New York, United-States
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Antoine Proulx, Nancy Guignard
International Garden Festival 2021: Magic lies outside
International Garden Festival / Reford Gardens
Choose your Own Adventure Balmori Associates [Noémie Lafaurie-Debany, Javier Gonzalez-Campana, Simon Escabi, Chris Liao, Cristina Preciado, landscapers and urban planners] New York, United-States
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JC Lemay
International Garden Festival 2021: Magic lies outside
International Garden Festival / Reford Gardens
HässjaEmil Bäckström, architectStockholm, Sweden
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Martin Bond
International Garden Festival 2021: Magic lies outside
International Garden Festival / Reford Gardens
HässjaEmil Bäckström, architectStockholm, Sweden
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Nancy Guignard
International Garden Festival 2021: Magic lies outside
International Garden Festival / Reford Gardens
HässjaEmil Bäckström, architectStockholm, Sweden
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JC Lemay
International Garden Festival 2021: Magic lies outside
International Garden Festival / Reford Gardens
HässjaEmil Bäckström, architectStockholm, Sweden
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JC Lemay
International Garden Festival 2021: Magic lies outside
International Garden Festival / Reford Gardens
Miroirs acoustiquesEmmanuelle Loslier, landscape architect, Camille Zaroubi, landscape architectMontreal (Quebec) Canada
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Nancy Guignard
International Garden Festival 2021: Magic lies outside
International Garden Festival / Reford Gardens
Miroirs acoustiquesEmmanuelle Loslier, landscape architect, Camille Zaroubi, landscape architectMontreal (Quebec) Canada
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JC Lemay
International Garden Festival 2021: Magic lies outside
International Garden Festival / Reford Gardens
Miroirs acoustiquesEmmanuelle Loslier, landscape architect, Camille Zaroubi, landscape architectMontreal (Quebec) Canada
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JC Lemay
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International Garden Festival 2021: Magic lies outside
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Miroirs acoustiquesEmmanuelle Loslier, landscape architect, Camille Zaroubi, landscape architectMontreal (Quebec) Canada
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International Garden Festival 2021: Magic lies outside
International Garden Festival / Reford Gardens
Open Space legaga [Gabriel Lemelin, Francis Gaignard, Sandrine Gaulin, architectural interns] Quebec (Quebec) Canada
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International Garden Festival 2021: Magic lies outside
International Garden Festival / Reford Gardens
Open Space legaga [Gabriel Lemelin, Francis Gaignard, Sandrine Gaulin, architectural interns] Quebec (Quebec) Canada
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International Garden Festival 2021: Magic lies outside
International Garden Festival / Reford Gardens
Open Space legaga [Gabriel Lemelin, Francis Gaignard, Sandrine Gaulin, architectural interns] Quebec (Quebec) Canada
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International Garden Festival 2021: Magic lies outside
International Garden Festival / Reford Gardens
Open Space legaga [Gabriel Lemelin, Francis Gaignard, Sandrine Gaulin, architectural interns] Quebec (Quebec) Canada
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International Garden Festival 2021: Magic lies outside
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Porte-bonheur David Bonnard, DE-HMONP architect, Laura Giuliani, landscaper, Amélie Viale, visual artist Lyon, Villefranche sur Saone and Lissieu, France
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International Garden Festival 2021: Magic lies outside
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Porte-bonheur David Bonnard, DE-HMONP architect, Laura Giuliani, landscaper, Amélie Viale, visual artist Lyon, Villefranche sur Saone and Lissieu, France
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International Garden Festival 2021: Magic lies outside
International Garden Festival / Reford Gardens
Porte-bonheur David Bonnard, DE-HMONP architect, Laura Giuliani, landscaper, Amélie Viale, visual artist Lyon, Villefranche sur Saone and Lissieu, France
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Nancy Guignard
International Garden Festival 2021: Magic lies outside
International Garden Festival / Reford Gardens
Porte-bonheur David Bonnard, DE-HMONP architect, Laura Giuliani, landscaper, Amélie Viale, visual artist Lyon, Villefranche sur Saone and Lissieu, France
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International Garden Festival 2021: Magic lies outside
International Garden Festival / Reford Gardens
International Garden Festival, Reford Gardens
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PASSAGES INSOLITES 8th edition: art takes over!
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Nicole Banowetz (Denver, United States), "An Adaptive Moment", 2021 A strange specimen overlooks the Bassin Louise. The inflatable installation reflects and magnifies the anatomical details of the rotifers, microscopic creatures that are able to dry out and be swept up by the wind to escape their predators. As they travel, rotifers absorb the DNA of nearby species and recombine it with their own, ensuring their survival. This exceptional creature with its surreal shape has a great deal to teach us about the transformative virtues of adaptability and resilience in the face of adversity.
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BGL (Quebec City, Quebec), "The Trap", 2007 What artwork can hold us in its thrall like an ice cream stand, singing its siren song to young and old alike? Hold on, though – when you take a closer look, the stand turns out to be completely infested with dead insects! Between attraction and repulsion, the unsettling lure of this trap is a stark reminder that appearances can be deceiving, and what looks like the tastiest of treats may be no more than a mirage. This artwork was first created for Artefact Montreal’s third edition, presented on Saint Helen’s Island by the Centre d’art public to highlight the 40th anniversary of Expo 67.
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PASSAGES INSOLITES 8th edition: art takes over!
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Charles-Étienne Brochu (Quebec City, Quebec), "King of the Mountain", 2020 A monumental house of cards with colourful illustrations stands before the Parliament Building. The work illustrates the precarious nature of social equilibrium and represents the duality of our precious institutions, which are at once fragile and robust. Much like the fabric of Quebec society, a house of cards requires great care and constant vigilance. All it takes is a gust of wind or one abrupt move to topple everything we have worked so hard to build. Presented in partnership with the Assemblée nationale du Québec.
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Benedetto Bufalino, (Lyon, France), "Lawn Cars", 2021 In a utopic new world where the car has become obsolete, a series of three parked cars are overturned, filled with earth, and covered with an immaculate lawn. It’s the perfect site for an afternoon in the sun, or a picnic. Street parking is taken over by a place where people live together playfully while greening the public space. The sight of cars reused and repurposed in this way is also a cogent criticism of consumerism and the climate emergency. Produced with support from the Consulat général de France à Québec.
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Delirious Québec (Quebec City, Quebec), "Delirious Québec", 2021 The Delirious Québec collective let its imagination run wild, reproducing and combining elements from various Quebec City buildings notable for their unique volumetric proportions and strong identity. In a promenade that juxtaposes buildings from hitherto widely separated locations and time periods, the built heritage is broken 6 down to its formal features through a reversal of perspective, and variations in scale and geometric abstraction of shapes complicate our perceptions. Delirious Québec won the PASSAGES INSOLITES competition, organized in collaboration with Architecture Student Association at Université Laval. This project is made possible by the Entente de développement culturel, a funding agreement between the Québec government and the Ville de Québec.
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PASSAGES INSOLITES 8th edition: art takes over!
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Yann Farley (Sainte-Justine, Québec), "Station A", 2021 "Station A" is a payment station that blends into the urban landscape, with its familiar interface and pictograms, along with the tantalizing promise of giving you something for free. But all attempts to operate the machine are fraught. The instructions seem increasingly absurd until we realize the nature of the twisted trial the artist has set out for us. This electroacoustic interactive sculpture pokes fun at our ambiguous relationship with the automated equipment we now interact with everywhere we go.
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PASSAGES INSOLITES 8th edition: art takes over!
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Charles Fleury and the students of École secondaire Vanier (Quebec City, Quebec), Parade of Imagination 2021 This merry menagerie of hybrid people/animals/objects has been exhibited on the walls of Côte de la Potasse. The dynamic composition of the pieces on display is the result of a collective work of collage. Fragments of visual and textual elements have been cut out and reassembled by high-school artists to represent various facets of their identity. Our self-image, and the one we project onto others, come together in this collective self-portrait. This project is made possible by the Entente de développement culturel, a funding agreement between the Québec government and the Ville de Québec.
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PASSAGES INSOLITES 8th edition: art takes over!
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Susanna Hesselberg, (Malmö, Sweden), "When my father died it was like a whole library had burned down", 2015 Scarcely visible on the horizon, a library plunges deep into the abyss of an underground shaft. The riveting sight invites further exploration, but the wealth of knowledge and poetry we could fall into remains out of reach. The title references song lyrics by Laurie Anderson to evoke the all-consuming pain of losing a loved one. This buried library, not unlike a tomb, reflects the mourning for transmission interrupted, for knowledge now lost, irrevocably and forever. Presented in partnership with the OpenArt biennial (Örebro, Sweden). EXMURO is grateful to the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Conseil des arts du Canada for its financial support.
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PASSAGES INSOLITES 8th edition: art takes over!
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Mark Jenkins (Washington, D.C., United States), Untitled, 2021 The city is a stage set for Mark Jenkins’s hyperrealistic characters, who adopt unusual postures and interact with the built environment in surprising ways. They pop up in the alleyways and hidden nooks and crannies of the historic Petit-Champlain neighbourhood, where they are always ready for playful hijinks. Cast at human scale, and dressed in a disarmingly realistic manner, these sculptures fool passersby, who need a double-take to see that they aren’t actually real people in alarming positions. EXMURO is pleased to present the work of Mark Jenkins in collaboration with Manif d’art – the Quebec City biennial. In 2022, the artist’s work will be presented at Le Manif d’art 10.
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PASSAGES INSOLITES 8th edition: art takes over!
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Pascale LeBlanc Lavigne (Quebec City, Quebec), "The Bus Shelter", 2021 A dozen robotic arms with blue cloths and spray bottles are placed inside a bus shelter, and clumsily attempt to clean the glass walls. But this lacklustre contraption seems only to make the shelter walls dirtier. At a time when the hygiene practices in a sterilized city are growing ever more intense, in the midst of a looming labour shortage, Pascale LeBlanc Lavigne has created an irreverent and ironic attempt to automate the upkeep of urban furniture. Made possible by the support of RTC.
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Stéphane Bourgeois_EXMURO
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