...It’s also a hollow vessel. I am something tiny and insubstantial contained inside it. I don't recall being frightened. Perhaps it was comforting to find myself sheltering in such a solid refuge. II...

Khursheed Ahmad’s practice germinates from a plethora of creative vistas to form an organic melange of several cross-dimensional mediums, including performance, text, sound, drawing, found objects and...

It's now a tradition: every year, Fonderie Darling invites its members to a special evening. Come renew your membership and celebrate with our guests: Gaspesian artist Christopher Varady-Szabo (Gaspé...

Cynthia Girard-Renard has been developing a multilayered work where political activism, identity issues and animal imaginary come together through a broad range of techniques. Hers is an experimental...

SANS TOIT NI LOI, OR HOW TO ACCOMMODATE A WHALE IN PAINTING In a recent poem, Cynthia GirardRenard imagines a post-apocalyptic world where people ride unicorns on the streets of Montreal, beluga mothers...

THE WATCHERS BEING WATCHED  The many characters populating Vincent Larouche’s recent paintings are inspired by pop and media culture icons of the last twenty years and immerse viewers into a fantasy world...

We live on rue Queen in the Cité Multimédia. We throw eggs at the mafia. At night, we are awakened by the engines of  motorcycles. Two hundred birds, real birds, nest in front of our windows. Drones survey...

PRESENTATION Launched in 2021, La Gare de Matapédia - Arts and Community Centre is a visual arts project showcasing local heritage. It integrates artist residencies, an exhibition space, arts activities...

Carte blanche to Ida Toninato – Listening to the Abyss In response to Sans toit ni loi: The Cetaceans of the Saint Lawrence by Cynthia Girard-Renard   Title : Listening to the Abyss Composition : Ida...

An awareness of the site inevitably guides the artists’ reflections and explorations in Place Publique; the works subtly accumulate, branching out into narratives that have resilience, resistance, and...

Sylvia Safdie, A Collector's Work    This fall, Fonderie Darling’s Main Hall presents the exhibition As I Walk, a new iteration of a precious collection of minerals and plants assembled by Israeli-Montreal...

Sylvia Safdie uses a variety of creative processes and mediums including sculpture, drawing, installation and video. Her work is based on the use of found natural materials, such as stones, plants or...

The next exhibitions by Sarah Stevenson in the Main Hall and Jeanette Johns in the Small Gallery are presented at the same time in order to uncover certain aesthetic connections between two generations...

*CANCELED* The final proposition of this group exhibition, Ça et là is by the Marion Lessard collective and is based on a stream of observations of Place Publique. Negotiating an effect of distance and...

Jeanette Johns’s work asks viewers to pay attention, to become aware of the scientific conventions and logical principles that govern our understanding of the world. Jeanette Johns is particularly interested...

Informed by a classical approach to the history of painting as much as by hypercontemporary visual culture, the painter's work is part of a continuous and heterogeneous formal research combined with an...

Fabienne Audéoud's practice revolves around notions of power relations, with a focus on language. Whereas the cultural role of women is not always directly addressed in her work, feminist and gender studies...

Michele Fiedler sees curatorial practice as a possible form of activism, a platform of thought with the means to produce, and make public, critical knowledge that has not been part of dominant discourses...

WORLDMAKING TENTACLES  In the group exhibition Worldmaking Tentacles, technological, ecological, and spiritual wisdoms meet to conjure an array of possible futures. The artists summon phoenix-like  moments ...

As a multidisciplinary artist, Mégane Voghell is interested in the seductive power of images in the post-truth era. Mixing epistolary writing with mise en scènes, her practice explores different narrative...