This text is part of the special Christmas book at the museum
Joliette Art Museum
The holidays will be an opportunity to stop at the MAJ and appreciate the current exhibitions which are four in number: Smile! Emotions at work, Resurgence, Constellation and What the fragrant lilies try to cover up. If we focus on Resurgence, we fall into the wonderful artisanal world of prints, more particularly between 1914 and 2019. It presents some sixty linocuts produced in the context of traveling workshops given in nine communities of Nunavik. This is proof that the practice of printmaking has been alive and well within the Inuit community since the end of the 1960s. Today’s artists strive to provoke dialogues between the past and the present by appropriating their ancestral heritages in order to create current works.
For its part, What the fragrant lilies try to hide, by Montreal artist Vicky Sabourin, summons gentleness in a series of “symbolic objects, collected by her uncle and grandmother and then recovered from the house of the deceased, [et] she tries to reproduce the olfactory landscape of a domestic intimacy on the verge of disappearing ”. Writing the story of the living in dialogue with those who have disappeared has become an artistic objective, especially after the last two years when mourning and loss have stained our daily lives. How to remember, through the senses, those who have left? This is the question we are trying to answer. The museum offers the possibility of leaving home with a box containing objects and a collection of smells in order to relive this sensitive experience at home.
Until January 9, 2022
Canadian Center for Architecture
The exhibition A portion of the present: social norms and rituals as sites of architectural intervention is part of the larger project of the Canadian Center for Architecture Take back life. Since November 13, the visitor can become aware of the way in which architecture and town planning make it possible to apprehend certain societal transformations. Transformations that influence the built environment and the organization of our spaces. We give as an example the break-up of the nuclear family, the advent of robots in domestic tasks, the fluidity of human relations or the commitment of young people to environmental justice. All these elements push us to rethink spatiality and the lifestyles that are part of it. This is what we can analyze through a body of contemporary photographs, television series, an inventory of architectural research and several design objects.
Up to 1er May 2022
Museum of the Hospitallers
Victor Bourgeau. A bishop and his architect, it is a long retrospective in the life of a prolific architect who built more than 300 religious heritage buildings in Quebec. And to close the exhibition, which can be seen until January 2, the Musée des Hospitalières de l’Hotel-Dieu de Montréal is offering interesting musical encounters, two organ recitals. The first will take place at the Gesù on November 28 and the second at the chapel-church of the Hospitallers on December 12. The interpretation of works by Jean-Sébastien Bach, Louis Marchand, Louis-Claude Daquin and Louis Vierne will be performed by organist François Zeitouni. For lovers of religious architecture, the museum also organizes Sunday tours of the crypt, chapel and monastery of the Hospitallers until December 19.
Sherbrooke Museum of Fine Arts
If, by happy coincidence, your steps lead you to the city of Sherbrooke, stopping at the splendid building occupied by the Musée des beaux-arts can only be a good idea. You can still discover the autumn exhibitions which will end at the beginning of the year. We go there among other things for Temporalities from elsewhere, which highlights the work of Jin-me Yoon, a Korean Canadian artist living in British Columbia. The works bear witness to several themes dear to the artist. In particular its Korean cultural heritage, its experience of migration and its complex relationship with a host country with a colonizing past. This narration is exercised in the scrolling of photographs depicting portions of the life of characters that we can guess linked by strong links, with a constant presence of nature in the background.
Until January 9, 2022
POP Museum
In downtown Trois-Rivières, at the POP Museum, children are not forgotten. Interactive activity Santa is a superhero is especially intended for them. We invite 4 to 6 year olds to put themselves in the shoes of the character in an obstacle course inspired by the world of superheroes. The event will take place only on Saturdays and Sundays, December 4, 5, 11, 12, 18 and 19, with three performances per day. To go further, you should know that the activity follows the exhibition, in progress until September 24, 2023, The DNA of superheroes, a youth adventure expo which promises to be just as fun. It is about protecting the environment, experiments that go wrong and quests to save the city.
Marguerite-Bourgeoys Museum
The Marguerite-Bourgeoys historical site also houses the history museum of the same name. For the holiday season, the institution invites Montrealers to discover an exhibition by Dominick Trudeau, this great fan of nurseries. In Happy nativity scenes, we are staging 200 Christmas cribs from all over the world, as well as a selection of traditional objects by several artists. It will be fascinating to see the traditions surrounding the strong symbol that the nativity scene represents in Christmas history, the materials used, as well as the manufacturing methods according to the cultures. In the second emblematic place of the site, namely the Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours chapel, visitors will be able to admire a huge crib created by the late sculptor Sylvia Daoust.
Until January 23, 2022
Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art
Due to the work in progress in its main facilities, the MAC welcomes us temporarily from 1er next December at Place Ville Marie, in the heart of the business district. The inaugural exhibition of this new space deals with a subject still very close to us, because global confinement serves as a backdrop. In Contagion of terror, carried out by the research collective Forensic Architecture, in collaboration with the American journalist Laura Poitras, we tackle the question of the digital violence of cyber weapons against militants, mostly civilians. Laura Poitras won the Public Service Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on heightened surveillance by the United States National Security Agency and on Edward Snowden, who happens to be the narrator of the project. Here, we are far from the magic of the Holidays, but at the heart of an omnipresent social concern. Enough to liven up family dinners. For this recovery, a single price has been set at $ 10, and the museum will offer free admission to young people under 17 and to people with disabilities and their companions.
Until April 18, 2022