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Minna Natoma Art Corridor Street Furniture: Rest and Play
Ballman Khapalova with Rayyane Tabet

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Ballman Khapalova

Minna Natoma Art Corridor Street Furniture: Rest and Play
Ballman Khapalova with Rayyane Tabet

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Ballman Khapalova

Minna Natoma Art Corridor Street Furniture: Rest and Play
Ballman Khapalova with Rayyane Tabet

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Ballman Khapalova

Minna Natoma Art Corridor Street Furniture: Rest and Play
Ballman Khapalova with Rayyane Tabet

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Ballman Khapalova

Minna Natoma Art Corridor Street Furniture: Rest and Play
Ballman Khapalova with Rayyane Tabet

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Ballman Khapalova

Minna Natoma Art Corridor Street Furniture: Rest and Play
Ballman Khapalova with Rayyane Tabet

Photo credit:
Ballman Khapalova

Minna Natoma Art Corridor Street Furniture: Rest and Play
Ballman Khapalova with Rayyane Tabet

Photo credit:
Ballman Khapalova

Minna Natoma Art Corridor Street Furniture: Rest and Play
Ballman Khapalova with Rayyane Tabet

Photo credit:
Ballman Khapalova

Minna Natoma Art Corridor Street Furniture: Rest and Play
Ballman Khapalova with Rayyane Tabet

Photo credit:
Ballman Khapalova

Minna Natoma Art Corridor Street Furniture: Rest and Play
Ballman Khapalova with Rayyane Tabet

Photo credit:
Ballman Khapalova

Minna Natoma Art Corridor Street Furniture: Rest and Play
Ballman Khapalova with Rayyane Tabet

Photo credit:
Ballman Khapalova

Minna Natoma Art Corridor Street Furniture: Rest and Play
Ballman Khapalova with Rayyane Tabet

Photo credit:
Ballman Khapalova

Minna Natoma Art Corridor Street Furniture: Rest and Play
Ballman Khapalova with Rayyane Tabet

Photo credit:
Ballman Khapalova

Minna Natoma Art Corridor Street Furniture: Rest and Play
Ballman Khapalova with Rayyane Tabet

Photo credit:
Ballman Khapalova

Minna Natoma Art Corridor Street Furniture: Rest and Play
Ballman Khapalova with Rayyane Tabet

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Ballman Khapalova

PASSAGES INSOLITES 8th edition: art takes over!
EXMURO arts publics

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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Stéphane Bourgeois_EXMURO

PASSAGES INSOLITES 8th edition: art takes over!
EXMURO arts publics

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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Stéphane Bourgeois_EXMURO

PASSAGES INSOLITES 8th edition: art takes over!
EXMURO arts publics

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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Stéphane Bourgeois_EXMURO

PASSAGES INSOLITES 8th edition: art takes over!
EXMURO arts publics

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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Stéphane Bourgeois_EXMURO

PASSAGES INSOLITES 8th edition: art takes over!
EXMURO arts publics

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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Stéphane Bourgeois_EXMURO