Programming

Peter Conlin - Antichambre

Chloé Lefebvre - L’attente dans la tente

Philippe Tessier - Entre I, II , III

With the project Nouveaux repères: de jeunes artistes exposent, DARE-DARE presents the work of three artists who are not yet well known to the public: Peter Conlin, Chloé Lefebvre and Philippe Tessier. This special slot in the center's programming is inaugurated with the aim of encouraging the dissemination of artists in the early stages of their careers and making visible new avenues of current reflection in Montreal art. Whether it is a question of new reference points or new strategies for shifting the markers of the place where art is made visible, each of the invited artists proposes in his or her own way a sort of "out-of-focus" projection of sight or vision, which reinforces, three times rather than once, the sensation of evacuation from the physical place of the gallery or its status as an accessory...

With Antichambre, Peter Conlin weaves around the spectator a subtle interweaving of (tele)visual and sound propositions on the representation of a site in another and specifically codified place, in this case an art gallery. The proposal can be perceived as a set of variations on the theme of the room or as a metaphor of life seen in the symbolic crossing of multiple rooms following one another. Peter Conlin works with words, sounds, images and the camera but also with his body. The artist will present a performance in the gallery on March 13 and 14 at 8pm.

L'attente dans la tente, by Chloé Lefebvre, is presented in a closed space, in the building of the former Darling Foundry in the Faubourg des Récollets, in Old Montreal. The installation is somewhat autonomous and the viewer can only see it through the windows. Aiming at the integration of the artistic intervention in an industrial environment, the proposal implements an installation playing on contrasts and polarities: the playful activity in a place associated with work and constraint; the lightness, the poetic and the suspension filling an abandoned space, decrepit and stigmatized by its laborious past; the ephemeral and aerial event signaling itself in a static structure and closed in its gravity.

Mobilizing part of the DARE-DARE office space, Philippe Tessier cast a concrete "belvedere" on site on which he freezes a photographic image of the building that can be seen through the gallery window. A story of thresholds and in-betweens underlies this work. With the image set in the solid material and its real referent standing beyond the window, a journey between two monuments is proposed, composed of back and forth, no doubt. Between I, II, III refers to the languages specific to the places and especially to the situation of indeterminacy that confers the interpenetration of the territories.

Originally from Nova Scotia, Peter Conlin works with drawing, performance and installation. The artist studied at Concordia University in Montreal (philosophy), Sheridan College in Oakville (furniture) and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design where he holds a BFA (studio and art history). Since 1994, he has exhibited primarily in Nova Scotia and presented a performance at Studio 303 in Montreal in 1996.

Chloé Lefebvre has a bachelor's degree in visual arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal. She has participated in several events and art exhibitions since 1989, in Montreal, Quebec and Paris. She participated in the realization of the Usine métabolique in 1994 with Massimo Guerrera and exhibited at the Galerie 55 Prince in 1995.

Philippe Tessier holds a bachelor's degree in visual arts and art history from the Université de Montréal and a master's degree in visual arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal. Since 1992, he has participated in numerous university exhibitions in Montreal and Brussels.