Où sommes-nous
OBORO, Center for Contemporary Art, Montréal, 2018
Artists: Judith Albert (CH), Nik Forrest (CA), Katrin Freisager (CH) and Dana Claxton (CA)
Curators: Chantal Molleur, White Frame, Basel, Aaron Pollard, OBORO, Montreal
The absence of the question mark is deliberate. 'Where are we (Où sommes-nous)’ hints at the place we occupy within the exhibition space. These four artists provide a diversity of approaches to exploring fundamental questions concerning framing, narrative, still and moving pictures. Their practices span performance, figurative and abstract imagery tying the body to landscape. Brought together, their works articulate common preoccupations concerning perception and a desire to both disrupt and expand the popular imaginary by drawing from avant-garde, feminist, and post-colonial vernaculars and strategies.
These four established artists open and disrupt our knowledge of space and time, bringing into question the line between reality and illusion through poetry and resistance.
Katrin Freisager's photographs conjure mise-en-scène of bodies and staged phenomena. Her imagery traverses the boundary between reality and fiction. In her newer works, created in her studio, she takes us on a journey between experiencing and remembering, past and future, suggestion and after-image.
Katrin Freisager, Liquid Landscape / Wunderland / My Sister Never Sleeps, 2018
6 Beamer Projectjons with 6 Still Photographs, 2018
Exhibition Views: Where Are We, OBORO Center for Contemporary Art, Montréal, 2018
©Photos: OBORO and Romain Guilbault