As part of Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2007

Opening : Saturday September 8 at 4pm
Artist talk : Thursday September 13 at 5:30pm

At the heart of Kelly Richardson’s work, lies an interest in creating contemplative spaces which inspire a series of conflicting sensations, eliciting dread and fascination in equal measure. Her video installations adopt the use of cinematic language to investigate notions of constructed environments and the blurring of the real and the unreal. Riding the line between fact and fiction, the video installation Exiles of the Shattered Star consists in a sustained view of a mountain landscape in the early-morning hours, in which flaming nuggets, much like meteorites, steadily drift down from the sky, softly splashing into the water of the lake. Evoking a hypnotic and apocalyptic image, Exiles of the Shattered Star suggests that the world might end in silence, not with a bang but with a whisper.

Opening : Friday October 12 at 7pm

For this exhibition at articule Thérèse Mastroiacovo will present a series of large-scale drawings. Each drawing in the series uses the cover of an existing book or catalogue published within the last sixty years that contains in its title the words 'art' and 'now'. The accumulation of these drawings suggests that the history of contemporary art consists of a continuing present tense, each an italicized moment within a larger continuum. It is only bits of contextual information that returns each drawn cover to its specific context and distinguishes one moment from the next. Helium filled text balloons, balloons in the shape of letters, of the word 'now', accompany the drawings: now and now again, an ongoing present, a now with duration.

Opening : Friday November 23 at 7pm

David Armstrong Six’ work is based on existential themes such as the position of the individual in space, more specifically about the wandering and nomadic states of being. Often using different trajectories of work in his exhibitions, the artist presents an installation in which he explores ideas of composition and decomposition, seeking for a potential halt between movement and inertia.