Montréal/Brookyn Exchange event “The Detours of the Possible” @ A.I.R. Gallery (Brooklyn)

Re-Source II (installation) by Barbara Seigel (photo by courtesy of artist)

Re-Source II (installation) by Barbara Siegel (photo by courtesy of artist)

Artists: Barbara Siegel, Aimée Burg, Julie Côté, Véronique Ducharme, Bang-Geul Han, Minna Pöllänen, Kathleen Schneider and Catherine Tremblay

Curators Saada El-Akhrass, Julie Lohnes, Marie-Josée Parent

Gallery: A.I.R. Gallery (111 Front Street, Suite 228), Dumbo, Brooklyn)
Date: through  Sunday, February 3rd, 2013
Time: from 11am to 6pm

Montréal/Brooklyn is a contemporary art event built on the meeting of the two cities. Eight Brooklyn-based organizations with eight Montréal art organizations along with a combination of forty artists, are participating in this project. Grouped into pairs, institutions from each side of the border have curated exhibits where artworks from Montréal and Brooklyn-based artists truly engage with one another. The project was coneived as a round-trip between the two cities; beginning in Montréal in October 2012 and finishing in Brooklyn during January 2013. The exhibition launches Les Territoires’ International Exchange program.

In the context of this exchange. A.I.R. Gallery and Les Territoires collaborated to create The Detours of the Possible. This exhibition invites the public to unleash its imagination onto tales assembled by eight women artists. Each artist encourages us, the viewers, to participate in a univerise made-up of micro-fictions. At times playful and tactile, but also contemplative and poetic, each work takes us from a private to a communal story through the objects and characteres that inhabit each exhibit. The artists allow for the creation of new realities and the realization of utopian ideals permitting us to create meaning and new sense of our lives.

These works develop a space where visitors may appropriate the artists’ stories through participating in them. The Detours of the Possibleinvites the viewer to enter an imaginary world that he/she can build and deconstruct as the hero in his/her own narrative. Acting as an extension of our reality, this imaginary place helps us live more poetically in the world.

To see the press release for this exhibition, please CLICK HERE.

To see the full curatorial text for The Detours of the Possible, please CLICK HERE.