Chloë Lum and Yannick Desranleau : Stills from Non-Existent Performances
January 25 to March 4, 2023
Chloë Lum and Yannick Desranleau : Stills from Non-Existent Performances
Opening January 25 from 5 to 7pm. Artists in attendance.
Started in 2019, Stills From Non-Existent Performances is an ongoing series of photo-based works. This series of artworks was initially considered as an experimental laboratory where the duo and their various collaborators could test out form, movement, dramaturgy, and the resilience of their sculptural props. The photography sessions leading to the conception of these works are improvised performances, existing only in their documentation. Capturing the performers in unwieldy poses with the props, the photos are embellished with prose on the discomfort of being. To underscore the process of workshopping with the performers, these works are variously folded, draped, and layered as Lum and Desranleau aim to call attention to the ways that human beings and inanimate objects act on each other.
Chloë Lum and Yannick Desranleau are installation artists who work across video, performance, sculpture, sound, text, and photography. Their collaborative practice is rooted in the theatrical and the choreographic and examines the slippery and complex relationships between bodies and inanimate objects. These subjects are examined through the lens of chronic illness. They are based in Tiohtiá:ke (Montréal) and have worked collaboratively since 2000.
Biography
Chloë Lum and Yannick Desranleau have exhibited widely, notably at the Esker Foundation, Calgary; the Center for Books and Paper Arts, Columbia College, Chicago; the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; the Kunsthalle Wien; BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art; Whitechapel Project Space, London; the University of Texas, Austin; the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown; and the Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto. Lum and Desranleau are also known on the international music scene as co-founders of the avant-rock group AIDS Wolf, for whom they also produced award-winning concert posters under the name Séripop. Their work is in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.
