Past Residents
Past Resident2014: Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Véronique Leblanc
Véronique Leblanc is a Montreal based curator and writer interested in context-based practices. Her work typically analyses art practices concerned with issues of otherness and democracy in the context of globalization and art endeavours using documentary material to encourage the viewers to reflect critically on their perceptions or beliefs. Leblanc is drawn to artworks that explore the ways in which identity and ideological constructions are presented in the social sphere. Investigating connections between art, ethics and politics, her curatorial practice gives form to an ongoing reflection about the potential of contemporary art for addressing social, political or cultural issues, while also participating in the production of individual and social imaginaries.
Véronique Leblanc has curated shows featuring the work of Artur Żmijewski, Paul Wiersbinski, Dave Ball, Jean-Pierre Aubé, Patrick Beaulieu, Douglas Scholes, Jean-Pierre Gauthier and ATSA, among others. Her essays have been published in ETC Media, Espace Sculpture, Ciel Variable and Canadian Art, as well as numerous exhibition catalogues. She received the Canadian Art Writing Prize in 2011 and participated in the first M&M Curatorial Research Residency Program in Mexico in 2013 (Oboro, Montreal / Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico). Leblanc has an MA in art history from Université du Québec à Montréal, where she now teaches.
Emi Honda & Jordan McKenzie, Éolienne souterraine, 2013, Site specific installation. Courtesy of the artists, co-curated by Dominique Allard. Photo courtesy of Jean-Sébastien Veilleux.
Residents from Canada
Kristina Matousch
Kristina Matousch investigates phenomena such as digestion, eroticism, violence and exchange. Her point of departure is the encounter between the human body and the everyday objects surrounding it; an encounter where intimacy is mixed with alienation and desire with repulsion.
Kristina Matousch (born 1974 in Kalmar, Sweden) lives and works in Malmö, Sweden. She has an MFA from the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm. Recent exhibitions include Kristina Matousch / Dan Wolgers and Take Form, Galleri Riis, Stockholm; Shapes in the Making, Lunds Konsthall, Sweden; Embodied spaces, Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Norway; Suecia Contemporare, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Sweden; Baltic Sea Record, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany; Painting Fucking Guilty Pleasure, Antechamber, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Kristina Matousch and Tori Wrånes
August 18, 2015
Kristina Matousch, All Around, 2014, Performance/installation wall, 32 holes and food items, 196 × 94 × 39 in. (497.84 × 238.76 × 99.06 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Sweden
Past Resident2014: Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg
Jeff Desom
Filmmaker Jeff Desom uses sound, light, cinematography, rhythm and editing as well as digital imaging and processing combined to create atmospherically charged fantastical short stories. The artist’s most renowned project to date, Rear Window Loop (2010), merges cinema and contemporary art, by collaging the original film’s principal sequences and side events into a singular panoramic view of the backyard, with the original plot remaining largely intact.
Jeff Desom (born 1984, Luxembourg) Desom’s first short film, The Plot Spoiler, 2006, was voted Best Short Film at the 2007 Luxembourg Film Awards. Desom and experimental pianist, Hauschka, collaborations include four music videos and a filmic live performance, Ghost Piano, 2010. Co-directing with David Altobelli, Desom released the noise rock band Health’s music video, Tears, 2012. For his reworking of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window he earned the renowned 2012 Vimeo Award and a Golden Nica.
Jeff Desom, Tears, 2012, Film, 4 min. Courtesy of the artist.
