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BAHAR TAHERI AND MARIE-DOUCE ST-JACQUES: CONSTRUCTION, RUPTURE, RE-EMERGENCE
May 24th – June 16th 2018
Opening – May 31st, 5:30 p.m.
Marie-Douce St-Jacques creates labyrinthine spaces that function as puzzles or riddles, while Bahar Taheri’s technical and ornamental approach highlights the human dimensions of grand architectures. Through delicate fragmentation and assembly, the artists free architectural forms from their context and history, rendering them fragile, floating, radiant, and open to interpretation.
About the artists
Bahar Taheri declares “ Images can fuse with our imagination, sentiments and individual beliefs, extracted from their initial context, they begin to tell brand new stories ”, her work reinterprets spaces and time through drawing, painting and installation.
Her approach questions our relationship to political and religious power structures, reflected in architectures. She deconstructs structures and (re)invents them with a sensitive and poetic geometry of lines. She bends, readjusts buildings. These works are propositions, they put images at a distance, play with reflections, which disturb the eyes who comes to observe it.
Marie-Douce St-Jacques affirms: “ My life is a collage : I am a musician who studied literature and has a visual art practice ”. The artworks of the artist oscillate mainly between sound productions and visual pieces. Fascinated by the paper medium, she cuts, composes, connects, fixes, (re)prints, proposing a dialog between singular forms. She juggles with lines, letters, flat color and designs and proposes paths which are opren to interpretations.
This exhibition is presented as part of the program DémART-Mtl from the Conseil des arts de Montréal.
Photo: Guy L’Heureux and detail of Blue House by Bahar Taheri, , acrylic on paper, 2018.
Bahar Taheri visual artist, was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1980. Since 2014, she has lived in Montreal, Canada. Though principally a painter, Taheri has also worked in video, installation and performance. She received a BFA (2005) and an MFA in painting (2009) from Tehran’s Soore Art University. Taheri has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions both within Iran and abroad, and has worked as an artist-in-residence in Austria and Germany. Over the past twelve years, her work has focused on varying aspects of gender, identity, historical/social/political events and collective memory.
Marie-Douce St-Jacques is an interdisciplinary artist whose activities encompass music, visual arts, publishing and scriptwriting. As a musician and composer, she was vocalist and keyboard player in Pas chic chic (2005–2010) and, since 2011, has been one half of duo Le fruit vert with sound artist Andrea-Jane Cornell. A precocious publisher, at the age of 17 she founded aMAZEzine (1995–2001), an experimental music fanzine that would reach worldwide circulation. Inspired by musical and artistic avant-garde movements, St-Jacques has long been a creator of posters, book-objects, album covers, and, since 2010, hand-assembled collages. In 2015, Kolaj Magazine presented a feature on her work, and, in 2017, her first large-scale exhibition was presented at Maison de la culture NDG. St-Jacques pursues publishing activities through Le laps, a micro-publishing platform dedicated to artists’ writing, where she has notably released debut French-language titles by Daïchi Saïto and Simon Brown. As a screenwriter, she has cowritten scripts for François Lemieux’s documentary Un soleil difficile (2017) and Karl Lemieux’s Maudite poutine (2016), a feature-length film that premiered at the Venice Film Festival. St-Jacques holds a BFA in interdisciplinary arts and an MA in Littératures francophones et résonnances médiatiques. Her master’s thesis was awarded the Prix Pierre-et-Yolande-Perrault.
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