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Leyla Majeri : DES PARTICULES EN ERRANCE À LA RECHERCHE D’UN RÉCIPIENT
March 9th — April 8th, 2023
Opening: March 9th at 5:30 pm
Artist: Leyla Majeri
Project Description:
Leyla Majeri is concerned with ecologies of materials, nature, and the political. Her work employs sculpture, silver prints, archives, and plants to broach questions of biology, experimental ethnography, and marginalized forms of knowledge.
With Des particules en errance à la recherche d’un récipient, Majeri envisions an environment that fosters encounters between languages and materialities. Each of the presented elements testifies to an ecosystem and to a state of constant fluctuation between content and container that leaves a hybrid legacy in its wake.
The artist would like to thank Héromi, Léo, Lila, Martin Emilio, Roxanna and Zaki, for their participation. She also thanks the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Chantier de recherche residency at L’imprimerie, the Intersections residency at the École des arts visuels et médiatiques de l’UQAM, in partnership with Optica, a centre of contemporary art, the Conseil des arts de Montréal, and the team at Skol.
Photo Credit: phytogram on silver photo paper, 66 x 51 cm, Leyla Majeri, 2022
Leyla Majeri lives in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyaang/Montréal where she completed an MFA in visual and media arts at UQAM in 2018. Her work envisages ways of working rooted in the idea of commitment as both artistic process and mode of resistance. She is currently revisiting artisanal techniques and organic procedures drawn from her gardening practice, which she integrates into her sculptural installations. Winner of the Intersections residency, she is presenting a new exhibition at OPTICA in 2023. Her work has been shown in several artist centres in Canada as well as at Galerie de l’UQAM and Parisian Laundry. Majeri is the recipient of project grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.
Text by Katherine Kline
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