Passeport DARE-DARE 2024, whose theme is “Are we burning the candle at both ends?”, is an artistic rally project in which the public is invited to collect the work of 10 artists scattered around the Sud-Ouest district.
Teams
Mona Sharma
Mona Sharma is a first-generation Montreal artist of South Asian descent. She holds as MFA from Concordia University, has received numerous grants, and has exhibited her art in galleries across Canada and the United States. She works primarily in digital drawing and zines, mediums with accessiblity that lends well to subversive acts. Directly inspired by tensions induced by the diverse nature of her background, her goal through art has been to foster a more critical understanding of how we form as individuals and function as a society.
Projects of Mona Sharma
PASSEPORT 2024
PASSEPORT
+ FestivitiesRead morePASSEPORT 2022
PASSEPORT
+ Festive evening & AuctionRead moreTo celebrate DARE-DARE's 37th anniversary with a bang, the PASSEPORT project is more ambitious and unifying than ever. This special edition features 37 artists who have made our center what it is.
MONA SHARMA
TRUE TALES OF INTRIGUERead moreThis project consists of small booklets with short, powerful stories that people have told me over the years.
Book launch
3 DIS/LOCATIONsRead moreThis book looks at the last three locations where the DARE-DARE mobile shelter was moored, namely Cabot Square, Walter-Stewart Park and the Quartier des spectacles, and offers the reflections of five authors on various realities of artistic practices in public space.
Mona Sharma
Giving Words to the Ground: the Cabot Square projectRead moreThe rhythmic flow of development and decline in the history of Cabot Square and its surroundings are made use of by Mona Sharma to create her drawings and urban tales.