Final Holds draws on the world of professional wrestling as a metaphor for care, absence, and grief, where the final move of a match echoes the last gesture of holding a loved one.
Programming
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To Embody: Joyful Militancy and Irresistible Activism
2026-2027 programRead moreMichelle Caron-Pawlowsky
Finishing HoldsRead moreÆlab
Entre branches, bronches et rayons.Read moreThe duo Ælab, part of the Interventions component of the 2026–2027 program, is presenting two bike-and-audio activities with the Mobile Station, as well as an AV performance featuring modular synthesis, exploring the combined power of plants and mobility.
Jad Orphée Chami
Residency
Micro-residency at La HALTE: l’appel du rhapsodeRead moreAs part of a two-day micro-residency at La HALTE de DARE-DARE, Jad Orphée Charmi is offering a workshop exploring the memory of a place and the objects that embody it, as well as a storytelling evening.
Caroline Gagné
Peupleraie - Corps social et corps sonoreRead morePeupleraie invites us to explore the soundscape of a community of trees, poplars, in the urban fabric of the Petite-Bourgogne neighborhood and the Lachine Canal, as a metaphor for the “living environment” and the social body. Anyone passing through the South-West neighborhood with an internet-connected device and a pair of headphones can experience the project. Various connectors are available at the HALTE or at the DARE-DARE offices.
Andréanne Martin
Les seins ballants, je m'en vais au ventRead moreLes seins ballants, je m’en vais au vent is a micro-edition of nomadic artist books that explore the idea of wandering from a feminist and decolonial perspective, and are designed to evolve over the course of a year.
Archives
1995 one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-five
Dianna Frid et Karen Michelsen
Portraits transgéographiquesRead moreThe two artists proposed a series of portraits created by correspondence, in the mode of an exquisite corpse. Drawing, mail art and installation in gallery.
Christiane Desjardins
Mouvements de fond sans gravitéRead moreThe artist presents a series of photographs of bodies immersed in water, where transparency becomes doubly present as a real medium and virtual image.
Lucie Ouellet
The wearing of the body: marks and remarksRead moreLucie Ouellet proposes a photographic exploration of the different metaphorical meanings that the body can suggest.
Immixtion
DARE-DARE 10th Anniversary EventRead moreFor its tenth anniversary, DARE-DARE returns to its first intention: a different exhibition per day for ten days.
Katja MacLeod
Memories slightly alteredRead moreKatja Macleod proposes a painting-installation that refers to the memories of her childhood in post-war Germany.
Louise Rheault
Étrange cultureRead moreÉtrange culture draws from within our civilization the objects that define it. It is also the place of our private space, of the fruits of our childhood, of the old ones which shaped our personal and family history.
Bingo Bénéfice
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Naki
Stick-harpRead moreNaki, a multi-instrumentalist composer, invites us on a unique musical journey with the Stick-harp, a 37-string instrument that brings together the harp, guitar, bass, and tampura. With this instrument, the artist explores new polyrhythmic possibilities and delivers an original sonic performance.
Luc de Vette
ReformulationsRead moreAn exhibition of paintings in the gallery.
Joceline Chabot
La confusion des sensRead moreIn this installation, the artist has arranged various objects that the light makes glow from the inside and create a shadow theater from the outside.