Satellite
Under the direction of Martin Dufrasne, Dare-Dare, Montreal, 2022, 420 pages
End point of an “exploratory decade”, Satellite lists through essays and images the residences of the same name led by Dare-Dare in “three extraordinary urban contexts”: Detroit and Tijuana, in 2011, and Mexico City, in 2018. The themes of housing, transition, of cohabitation, among others, tinged the creative processes developed on site by 17 artists.
Dare your voice The Roger Bellemare Gallery (1971-2021)
Laurier Lacroix, PUM, Montreal, 2022, 176 pages
The title suggests that the experienced Roger Bellemare is no longer active – he still is, at 80, in the gallery he co-directs with Christian Lambert. Nevertheless, the work that Laurier Lacroix undertakes here is colossal, so much does it retrace the “successive new beginnings” of this ally of artists, including the immense Joseph Beuys and Betty Goodwin. The texts of five personalities, including cousin Marc Bellemare, complete the portrait.
Habitat
Sandra Larochelle, self-employed, 2022, unpaginated
This photographic book composed only of images — and a few words — surprises with its dimensions and its vertical format. Sandra Larochelle looks back on the last moments of life at 305, rue de Bellechasse, formerly a center of workshops. The alternation between full-page photos, smaller formats, portraits and empty spaces carefully speaks of the migration that took place there.