The Wrong Corpse / Faux cadavre
MAY 4 TO JUNE 13, 2009
L’ACTIVITÉ/Olivier Choinière, Julie Favreau, Marc-Antoine K. Phaneuf
Curator: Robin Simpson, en collaboration avec Maryse Larivière.
Produced by the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery
Université Concordia University
1400, boul. de Maisonneuve ouest, LB-165
Montréal, QC H3G 1M8
(514) 848-2424, ext. 4778
The Wrong Corpse is a possession, an interlope, a misattribution, an alibi, a middleman, a solecism, a diversion, an iconoclast. This exhibition brings together three artists who cast a critical, yet equally celebratory, light over the coming apart of identity under political, psychological, and social pressures. Their negotiations take the form of: an audio tour of an artistic utopia already lost; a dance between the possessed and their domestic accessories; and a gaudy collection of trophies recast as a narrative device. Through video, performance, and installation – Olivier Choinière, Julie Favreau, and Marc-Antoine K. Phaneuf, conjure, revive, and author identities by abusing the cultural designs that can delimit our character.