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Group exhibition: Ras le bol
April 18th to May 17
Opening and performances Friday April 18, 5:30pm
Artists
Bobo Boutin, Isabelle Guimond, Whitney Lafleur, Isabelle Mathieu, Kristin Nelson, Aurélien Monsarrat Chanon, Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa
For the exhibition Ras le bol, curator Ève Dorais took her inspiration from the punk movement, via one of the works in the exhibition: The Soiled Queen (God Save the Queen) by Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa. The exhibition thus gives voice to a brute energy, youthful practices, at once strong and fragile, or that exist outside of the conventional frameworks of contemporary art.
“There is certainly no lack of reasons to be angry and discouraged by thestate of the world and the future of humanity. But how does this indignation take form within a given artistic practice? Ras le bol is developed around this question, and brings together artists whose works express being generally disheartened and fed up with certain realities. Far from adopting contemplative, formalist, self-referential or timid approaches when faced with subjects that go beyond art for art’s sake, the artists presented in Ras le bol assert themselves, observe the world, communicate their feelings, point out aberrations, and stand firm in their social roots.” – Dorais
Performance schedule :
On the menu: a blurring of the lines between the world of art and the world of boxing (Mathieu), absentminded and eclectic hairstyling (Lafleur), a critical gesture bearing on the history of colonisation (Ramirez-Figueroa), and a total shake up (Bobo Boutin).
5 :30pm Doors open
5 :50pm Word from the curator and launch of publication
6 :00pm Isabelle Mathieu
6 :00pm and 7:20pm Whitney Lafleur
6 :30pm Naufus Ramirez Figueroa
8 :00pm Bobo Boutin
A self-taught artist born in 1975 (thunderous applause), Bobo Boutin is a member of the now-defunct musical group Les Georges Leningrad. He has shown his drawings in Berlin, Buenos Aires and Rouyn-Noranda. He presently lives in Montréal.
boboboutin.tumblr.comIsabelle Guimond (BA, UQAM, 2008; MA, UQAM, 2014), whose medium of choice is painting, has participated in many group exhibitions, notably at such galleries as Les territoires in 2013 and B-312 in 2014. She also recently presented a solo show at the Galerie de l’UQAM.
isabelleguimond.caWhitney Lafleur is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist working mainly in performance art and video. She has participated in la Biennale d’art performatif de Rouyn-Noranda, Péristyle Nomade’s L’écho d’un fleuve and the 15th Interakje Festival in Poland, to name a few. Originally from Rouyn-Noranda, she presently lives in Montréal.
Isabelle Mathieu (BA, UQAM, 2013; MA, UQAM ongoing) situates her practice between artmaking and boxing, and works in painting, photography, performance and installation. She has participated in over forty boxing matches, both locally and internationally. She has shown her artwork at Studio XX, Galerie de l’UQAM and the Sainte-Brigide de Kildare church.
Aurélien Monsarrat Chanon (BA, Concordia, 2013) is a painter and computer programmer that draws inspiration from the social contexts that he grew up in. He has participated in several group shows, notably in the Place des arts metro, at Galerie Onze and Galerie D’Este.
aurelien.caKristin Nelson (BA, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, 2003; MA, Concordia, ongoing) was born in Ajax, Ontario. A multidisciplinary artist, she has shown work at the Museo Textil de Oaxaca (2012), Plug In Institute for Contemporary Art (Toronto, 2013) and at the Parisian Laundry (2014). She lives and works in Winnipeg.
kristinnelson.caInternationally-renowned artist Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa (BA, Emily Carr; MA, Art Institute of Chicago) was born in Guatemala in 1978 and became a naturalized Canadian as a young boy. He divides his time between Vancouver, Guatemala, and the numerous cities where he participates in residency programs. His work has notably been presented at the Centro Cultural de España in Guatemala (2010), Casa América, (Madrid, 2012) and will be shown at the Tate Modern and the Gwangju Biennale in 2014.
uvuvuv.com/uv/naufusramirezfigueroa.htmlÈve Dorais has been involved in the world of visual arts as an artist, curator, author, and coordinator of exhibitions and publications. She studied Studio Arts and then Art History at l’Université du Québec à Montréal. In 2004, in collaboration with Édouard Pretty, she presented Voyage stationnaire (Stationary voyage) at DARE-DARE, a relational and installation-based exhibition of mail art. In January 2011, Caravansérail presented her first solo exhibition entitled L’art des autres (The art of others), and that same year she presented a video animation as part of the exhibition Embracing the Archive, at Skol. With Aude Moreau and in collaboration with articule, she curated11 :1/1, presented at the CDEx in 2007,and was co-curator of Les Mangeurs (The Eaters) for the 2012 ORANGE Contemporary Art Event of Saint-Hyacinthe.
Text for the exhibition Ras le Bol by Ève Dorais
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