Programming

SPECIAL

21 — 23 August 2026

Marie-Claude Gendron

Des murs en carton

In collaboration with Folie/Culture, DARE-DARE is pleased to host Marie-Claude Gendron’s performance installation Des murs en cartons as part of its Quebec tour.

Photo: Christian Baron

In collaboration with Folie/Culture, DARE-DARE is pleased to host Marie-Claude Gendron’s performance installation Des murs en carton as part of its Quebec tour.

Blending raw textures with altered everyday sounds, Des murs en carton presents a living installation where sounds, materials, and gestures intertwine. For three consecutive days, artist Marie-Claude Gendron will inhabit a temporary cardboard apartment, where she will perform a live sound composition.

Drawing on her experience with hyperacusis, a condition of auditory hypersensitivity with which she lives, the project seeks to make perceptible what escapes the eye. The gaps in the set-up reveal to the audience different levels of sound perception within a space that is both intimate and constructed.

The fragility of cardboard resonates with that of housing and bodies, like a poetic echo of precariousness and the difficulty of fully inhabiting an increasingly compartmentalized world. By transforming a vacant space into a sensitive refuge, Marie-Claude Gendron examines our walls—those that protect, isolate, or exclude—and the boundaries between the intimate, the private, and the collective.

Combining art, care, and social reflection, Des murs en carton opens up a space for shared resonance. Here, the artist approaches vulnerability not as a flaw, but as a lucid, fragile, yet resilient presence in the world.

Free and open to everyone!

LOCATION

L’espace loüable - 3550 Saint-Jacques Street, Montreal.

EXHIBITION OPENING

August 21 - 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
BYOB

OPENING HOURS

August 21 – 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.
August 22 – 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.
August 23 – 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.

A big thank you;

To Hugo Nadeau, Félix Gould, Gabriel Armelin, Olivia Clotaire, Michelle Lacombe, Katherine-Josée Gervais, Nadège Grebmeier-Forget, Martin Dufrasne, Myriam Le Lan, and Cassandre Brillant; for their technical assistance, helping hands, lending equipment, support, coordination, and trust.

To Mathieu Fecteau; for his help with the design and construction of the apartment installation.

To Magali Babin; for her guidance in creating the “sound tapestry.”

To Louis Rivest-Hénault; for the photo and video documentation.

Marie-Claude Gendron

Born in Quebec City, Marie-Claude Gendron is involved in organizing self-managed performance events and has participated in numerous residencies, exhibitions, and events in Quebec, France, Brazil, Italy, Northern Ireland, Thailand, Mexico, Switzerland, and Norway. Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions, notably at Norske Grafikere, Oslo (2022); the Rencontres internationales de photographie de Gaspésie, Paspébiac (2021); Agence TOPO, Montreal (2018); the Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal (2016), and at the Bangkok Art Culture & Center, Bangkok (2015). She has won various awards and creative grants, including the Première Ovation grant for original initiatives in independent exhibition in 2012 and 2013, the FARE grant in 2014, support from SODEC in 2016, and travel and creative grants from CALQ in 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2019. Marie-Claude Gendron holds a bachelor’s degree in visual and media arts from Laval University and a master’s degree in visual and media arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal.

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