The gallery is pleased to announce that Mathieu Lacroix will present his work as part of a travelling group exhibition named We Made This Mostly at Home with Stuff We Already Had in Our Apartment: Prop Performance and Camp in Contemporary Canadian Video Art. Curated by Chloë Lum & Yannick Desranleau, the exhibit will be presented at the University of Alberta, AXENÉO7 (Gatineau) and Musée d'art de Joliette.
The works chosen for this exhibition show how, through their manipulation and display, objects are by default imbued with an innate theatricality. In the performances enacted onscreen, they take the role of “props”—a simple tool or vehicle enhancing a given gesture—or they populate the environment in which the performance happens, enhancing the dramaturgy to the point of exuberance—qualified as “camp”. This selection of video works surveys a spectrum of approaches, sketching a gamut of expressions possible through the material: from the poetic, through the personal, the zany, and to the political. These artists demonstrate “stuff” as a vehicle to reach a depth in nuance not possible with gestures or text alone.
To learn more about the group exhibition, please click here.
