Get rid of ghosts? 

Mid August 2017. The memorial landmark in memory of the confederate Jefferson Davis on Union Avenue in Montreal is removed, leaving its shadow behind on the side wall of the Hudson Bay. Echoing the recent events in Charlottesville (USA), and especially following a series of toponymic changes in Canada, this shadow will serve as a prop to present the work of artists who infiltrate public space by means of minority, alternative or repressed histories.

Bénédicte Le Pimpec’s fields of research, influenced by institutional critiques and relations between art and politics, focus on historiography related by artists. A graduate of the École supérieure d’art in Brest and the curatorial research program at HEAD–Genève, Le Pimpec has been associate curator at the Médiathèque Fonds municipal d’art contemporain de la Ville de Genève since 2016, and is co-director of the experimental pluridisciplinary art space One gee in fog.

Free admission. The presentation will be in French, the conversation will be in both English and French.