Past Residents
Past Resident2012: Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Marie Perrault
Curator Marie Perrault’s practice focuses on the influence of mechanical and technological devices. She is interested in how artists use these resources and address the increasing impact of digital technology. In 2010, in an exhibition of kinetic works of Alan Storey, she addressed various aspects of the influence of the machine in our daily lives. Perrault is now working on essays on the works of Montréal-based artists Pascal Dufaux and Jean Dubois. The first deals with the place of the individual in the current hyper-media context, and the second uses touch screen and cell phone technologies to interact with the viewers.
Over the last twenty years, Marie Perrault has organized a number of exhibitions for Canadian institutions such has Musée régional de Rimouski, Optica, and SBC Gallery, Montréal. She has also written a number of essays in contemporary art magazines and exhibition catalogs published in Canada and in France. She has written on the growing influence of technology, on various aspects of public art, on contemporary photography and on installation. Until 2009, she was Project Manager for the Percent for the Arts Program of Québec. She lives and works in Montréal.
Jean Dubois and Chloe Lefebvre, By Means of a Sight, 2008-2010, Interactive video installation. Courtesy of the artist.
Pascal Dufaux, Infrared Until the Night, 2012, Video kinetic machine shooting at Kamouraska. Courtesy of the artist.
Alan Storey, Public Art, Playful Machines, 2010. Courtesy of the artist and Musee Regional de Rimouski, Québec.
Residents from Canada
Past Resident2012: Foundation for a Civil Society
Velimir Zernovski
Velimir Zernovski explores notions of identity, urbanity and popular culture as well as sexuality and gender identity. His work involves many different media including drawings, videos, installations, object installations in public space, writing and artist books.
Velimir Zernovski was born in Skopje and graduated at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje. Currently, he is a postgraduate student at the Department of Cultural Studies at The Euro-Balkan Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities Research, Skopje. He has had solo exhibitions in Macedonia and abroad in New York, Paris, Vienna, and Freiburg. Zernovski is the co-founder and president of FRIK Cultural Initiatives development Formation, and organization which is working on motivation of socially engaged art production and society democratization, beyond prejudices and stereotypes.
Velimir Zernovski. Courtesy of the artist.
Velimir Zernovski. Courtesy of the artist.
Velimir Zernovski. Courtesy of the artist.
Velimir Zernovski. Courtesy of the artist.
Velimir Zernovski. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2012: Foundation for a Civil Society
Slobodan Stosic
Slobodan Stosic’s work focuses on personal reflections, lies and subversion from within. The combination creates an absurd whole, a break in which relations between power and art suddenly become visible and meaningless. He works in order to prove that nothing exists except the ‘in between.’
Slobodan Stosic was born in Novi Sad, where he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts. He was the winner of the 2012 Mangelos Award. Hi recent exhibitions include Out of place, an Ongoing Archive at Indipendents 3 c/o ArtVerona and Between the Real and Reality (Topography of Public/Private Space), Gallery Third, Belgrade.
Slobodan Stosic. Courtesy of the artist.
Slobodan Stosic. Courtesy of the artist.
Slobodan Stosic. Courtesy of the artist.
