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MANUELA LALIC

3 PROJECTS

Manuela Lalic uses the fundamental contradictory similarities of snow and polystyrene in order to immerse herself in the public space with humour.


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Manuela Lalic uses the fundamental contradictory similarities of snow and polystyrene in order to immerse herself in the public space with humour. She tries to understand her relationship to sculpture in the public space by focusing her attention on its limitative aspects (politics, security, material durability) and, at the same time, trying to integrate herself in it, like an unknown object.

Program

VIP [performance]
Friday, February 14 at 1 p.m.
Parterre du Quartier des spectacles | intersection of Clark street and De Maisonneuve boulevard

Above my knees, my legs are caught in a white polystyrene 4 x 8. Caught in this modern-day ice sheet, I scan this perimeter of action. In this back and forth movement, the long handle of the broom waves the flag of an immigrant woman.


1% [installation]
Monday February 24 to Sunday March 2
Place de la Paix | boulevard St-Laurent and Place du Marché

The 1% project is 98% air. A wall of insulating polystyrene panels, a material made of 98% air, imposes itself, with humor, as a hymn without perennity to public art. By insulating nothing, 1% exists, concretely fragile, on the basis of a percentage which is harmful to it.


TRIP LOGIQUE [performance]
Saturday, March 8, 2014 at 2 p.m.
Parterre du Quartier des spectacles | intersection of Clark Street and De Maisonneuve Boulevard

Referring to Brancusi, an endless polystyrene column extends my body. With this caricature of a spine on my shoulders, I walk, straight as an i. To move forward is to lean on a delimited public space, without leaning.


Closing event
Wednesday March 19 | 5@9
At the DARE-DARE trailer, near Saint-Laurent metro

Manuela Lalic pays particular attention to the functionalist aspect of our system of social organization as a model of society. To create the effect of a tension between what is individual and collective, she uses functional objects, furniture and materials as clues to our logic of life. Her installations, performances and objects question mass movements (e.g. taking the subway) to point out our society that prefabricates and standardizes our desires and needs. Through accumulation, she creates a raw material from which she elaborates minimalist or exuberant stagings that question our collective moments (e.g. picnics, weddings, university reunions) while indicating political and ecological concerns.

The artist wishes to thank Félix Chartré-Lefebvre, Robin Cadotte, Marthe Carrier, Nadia Trudel, Olivier Longpré and the DARE-DARE team.
Manuela Lalic has presented her work in Canada, the United States, France, Germany, England, Lebanon, Japan, China and Serbia. Finalist of the 2012 Powerhouse Award and recipient of the Pratt and Whitney Canada Fellowship (2009), she was awarded the Canada Council residency (International Studio and Curatorial Program) in New York (2009) and more recently, in 2014, she completed a residency at the Sandarbh Artists Residency (Rajasthan, India). She is currently preparing several projects, notably with DARE-DARE (Montreal), Le Lieu Centre en art actuel (Quebec City) and as part of a collective project at the Musée de l'Estampe in Mexico City.