Ceramics are an ideal case study in the aesthetics of destruction. While a ceramic object can be preserved for centuries, it is always haunted by the chance that it might slip from unsteady hands or
Since 2017, Gallery 17/18, an exhibition space in the building that houses the Embassy of the Czech Republic, in Ottawa, has presented exhibitions featuring a Czech and a Canadian artist together. This salon-type space (…)
Last year, Sheep Pig Goat, the UK-based company Fevered Sleep’ project, was commissioned by the Wellcome Collection as part of their year-long Making Nature program, which explored the relationship between perception and knowledge in human-animal
From cave paintings to today’s animal photography along with television documentaries on the lives and environments of numerous animal species, human beings have always represented living (…)
[text available in French only]. The critic (and member of the Editorial comity of ESPACE art actuel magazine) Mathieu Teasdale publishes an analysis of several works by artist Jeremy Shaw.
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On behalf of public health, the Canadian Parliament is preparing to legalize the recreational use of cannabis. By regulating its production and consumption, and no longer prohibiting it, Canada makes this drug (…)
[texte available in french only], the art critic and curator (and both Director and member of the Editorial comity of ESPACE art actuel magazine) André-Louis Paré publishes a review of the play Nos guettos, by the artists Jean-François Nadeau + Stéfan Boucher. The play is
[texte available in french only], the art critic and curator (and both Director and member of the Editorial comity of ESPACE art actuel magazine) André-Louis Paré publishes a review of the performance Oblivion, by the artist Sarah Vanhee. The performance/art installation is presented as part
The presentation of Ivo van Hove’s Kings of Wars at the 2018 FTA festival was a much anticipated event in Montreal. A boisterous standing ovation at the end of the play’s opening night performance sent a clear (…)
[texte available in french only], the art critic and curator (and member of the Editorial comity of ESPACE art actuel magazine) Bénédicte Ramade publishes a review of the film Union of the North, written by the artist Matthew Barney, directed by the choreographer Erna Ómarsdóttir and
This summer, if everything works out as planned, artist and geographer Trevor Paglen will launch a reflecting sculpture titled Orbital Reflector into extra-atmospheric space. Produced with a lightweight (…)
Illuminated signage tiles set on the floor of a museum’s exhibition space spell out, in bold black letters, MUNDOS. This sign has been salvaged from a bar in Ciudad Juárez, a city in the northern