What Does the Image Stand For?

Guest Curator: Ami Barak

MOMENTA | Biennale de l’image (formely Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal) presents, in collaboration with OPTICA, Valérie Mréjen –Q&R – Q&A from September 8th to October 21st. The opening is being held on September 8th at 7:30pm, in the presence of the artist.

What Does the Image Stand For?

Guest Curator: Ami Barak

MOMENTA | Biennale de l’image (formerly Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal) presents, in collaboration with OPTICA, Melik Ohanian – Portrait of Duration. L’instant S from September 8th to October 21st. The opening is being held on September 8th at 7:30pm, in attendance of the artist.

In partnership with OPTICA, artist Edith Brunette will undertake a documentation and art intervention project during the coming year in which she attempts to bring the worlds of art and multimedia closer together. This project falls in line with the artist’s ongoing focus on the economy of the art milieu.

Caroline Mauxion summons up an abstract world by wilfully turning away from the mimetic function in photography to focus chiefly on the medium’s indicial nature. She considers her own images as objects to be manipulated and arranged in space, and her photographs—based on residua from various projects, trials, explorations—become mutable material. Using in-situ actions, along with interventions upon the image itself or on the light capture, Mauxion initiates a transformative process between her snapshots and the locus of their production or dissemination. Her multidisciplinary approach broaches photography, installation, performance, and video.

Teja Gavankar’s work takes shape, on the one hand, in the practice of drawing, both on paper and in space, and, on the other, in her spatial interventions. Gavankar subtly transforms urban space by observing its composition, texture, and form, and investing it with a new perception, philosophy, and psychology. She is interested in spaces that comprise evolving situations and that allow for her own self-projection. Of a minimal yet all too compelling nature, these interventions, punctuated by objects from her surroundings, are a reflection of her experience of a given place.