Chloe Lum and Yannick Desranleau (SÉRIPOP): The Face Stayed East and the Mouth Went West (elements)

Performance May 29 at 5:30pm > Choreography by Sarah Wendt > with Sarah Wendt, Katie Ewald + guest performers

The Face Stayed East and the Mouth Went West (elements)

Choreography by Sarah Wendt

with Sarah Wendt, Katie Ewald + guest performers

For their sophomore exhibition at Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Séripop – the collaborative practice of Chloe Lum and Yannick Desranleau – will be exhibiting a new presentation of multi-disciplinary work. Known for their large scale sculptural installations constructed of brightly coloured – sometimes printed – paper materials, theThe Face Stayed East and the Mouth Went West (elements) exhibition distinguishes itself by referencing that sculptural work and its concepts through photo-based installation and performance.

In the last several years Séripop’s practice has explored the entropy of urban space. Their work occasionally engages directly with public architecture and objects (i.e. an entire building is papered and peels away over time in Avancez en arrière(2012)) and their sculptural installations are loosely reminiscent of the shapes and spaces that surround us in the public environment – buildings, construction sites, monuments – slowly shifting and collapsing with gravity and wear during the exhibition period.

At Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Séripop is exhibiting a series of large scale photographs, presented in light boxes, depicting existing sculptural works in repetition. Through these reproductions the objects are pushed to perform in new and different ways, against their own repeated selves and in the gallery space. Séripop then takes this dynamic a step further, collaborating for the first time with dancers to present a choreographed performance. Séripop’s misshapen objects are activated as props, costumes, and noise-makers, while being manipulated and navigated by the performers. As core members of the now defunct band AIDS Wolf, this overt performance work is new in form but not in nature for Séripop.

Séripop

Chloe Lum and Yannick Desranleau are based in Montréal. They have been the subject of several exhibitions in Canada and abroad, notably at the University of Texas at Austin (2015), the Center for Books and Paper Arts (Columbia College Chicago, 2015), Confederation Centre Art Gallery (Charlottetown, 2014), YYZ artists’ outlet (Toronto, 2013), the Blackwood Gallery

(University of Toronto, 2012), Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (Québec Triennial 2011),Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna, Austria, 2010), BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead, England, 2009), and Whitechapel Project Space (London, England, 2007). Lum and Desranleau have also been active as musicians, touring internationally with the experimental rock band AIDS Wolf, and producing a series of award-winning concert posters under the moniker Séripop.

Their collaborative work is in several collections, notably the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), University of Maryland Art Gallery, and BMO. Séripop is currently long listed for the 2015 Sobey Art Award. Séripop is represented by Galerie Hugues Charbonneau in Montréal.

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