MOMENTA Biennale de l’image Unveils 2023 Program Masquerades: Drawn to Metamorphosis

Work by siren eun young jung. Artistic direction by Studio Pianpian He & Max Harvey.

18th MOMENTA Biennale de l’image
Masquerades: Drawn to Metamorphosis
September 7, 2023 – October 22, 2023
https://momentabiennale.com

MOMENTA Biennale de l’image is delighted to announce the complete list of artists and exhibition venues participating in its 18th edition, from September 7 to October 22, 2023. Designed by curator Ji-Yoon Han, Masquerades: Drawn to Metamorphosis aims to explore the dynamics of visibility and invisibility that shape representations of the self and the other from the metamorphic potentials of mimicry. The exhibitions, the publication, and the public programs will be organized around this theme. Like a parade, the exhibitions form a sequence of surprising scenarios: humans who converse through mimicking parrots; a cephalopod that sways to the music of Whitney Houston; people with a complex about singing who form a choir; a scorpion, a bat, and a snake who unite their voices in a satirical musical comedy; and more.

Deployed in fifteen locations across the city, the Biennial program will bring together 23 artists from abroad, representing 15 countries, and from 4 provinces and 4 Indigenous nations of Canada. From one exhibition to the next, processes of transformation, mimicry, and mutation will be activated, questioning the functions of the image, between representation and metamorphosis.

Artists and Exhibition Partners
– Centre CLARK : Kristina Norman (Estonia)
– daphne : Meky Ottawa
– Dazibao : Anette Rose (Germany), Carey Young (United Kingdom/United States)
– Diagonale : Bianca Baldi (South Africa)
– Fonderie Darling : Valérie Blass (Canada), Jeannette Ehlers (Denmark/Trinidad and Tobago)
– Galerie B-312 : Michèle Pearson Clarke (Trinidad and Tobago)***
– Galerie FOFA : Mara Eagle (United States)
– Galerie de l’UQAM : Marion Lessard (Canada)*, Émilie Pitoiset (France), Naomi Rincón Gallardo (Mexico)
– Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery : siren eun young jung (South Korea)
– McCord Stewart Museum : Séamus Gallagher (Canada)*
– Montreal Museum of Fine Arts : Lynn Hershman Leeson (United States)
– Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal : Hito Steyerl (Germany)
– Occurrence : Chris Curreri (Canada), Maya Watanabe (Peru/Netherlands)
– OPTICA : Bianca Shonee Arroyo-Kreimes (Costa Rica/Canada)*, Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde (Kahnawà:ke, Canada)**
– VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine: Rémi Belliveau (Acadia, Canada)*, Tuan Andrew Nguyen (Vietnam), Marianne Nicolson (Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw Nation)*

*Presentation of a work commissioned by MOMENTA Biennale de l’image
**Presentation of a work co-commissioned by MOMENTA Biennale de l’image and Bonavista Biennale
***Presentation of a work in collaboration with the Art Gallery of Hamilton