Nuit Blanche 2020

Come spend your Nuit Blanche at the Canadian Cultural Centre!

On October 3, the Canadian Cultural Centre opens its doors for Nuit Blanche! From 7 to 11 p.m., come visit our new exhibition Image… Sent: an exceptional production to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Canadian Cultural Centre.

This exhibition brings together 36 new photographic projects by major Canadian contemporary artists, as well 50 special photographs shared by Canadian and French citizens.

Created during the lockdown, the exhibition show how our vision of the world has changed, through the artists’ images showing current and personal visions of their world, in Canada. A symbolic project produced specifically for France and consciously addressed to the French. The exhibition also pays tribute to the longstanding friendship between Canada and France thanks to photographs taken by the French for Canadians and by Canadians for the French.

Guest artists:  Jocelyne Alloucherie, Stephen Andrews, Sara Angelucci, Ming Arcand & Denys Arcand, IAIN BAXTER& (the &man), Robert Bean, Dominique Blain, Marie-Claire Blais, Dianne Bos, Michel Campeau, Bertrand Carrière, Millie Chen, Serge Clément, Robin Collyer, Louis Couturier & Jacky G. Lafargue, Donigan Cumming, Stan Douglas, Pascal Grandmaison, Angela Grauerholz, Adad Hannah, Isabelle Hayeur, Geoffrey James, Mark Lewis, Jimmy Manning, Aude Moreau, Nadia Myre, Ian Paterson, Ed Pien, Michael Snow, Lisa Steele & Kim Tomczak, Jana Sterbak, Public Studio (Elle Flanders & Tamira Sawatzky), Adrian Stimson,Diana Thorneycroft, Michèle Waquant, Johannes Zits

With a special pan-Canadian project by Geoffrey James
With a Canada-France citizen component bringing together 50 participants, including a special contribution from Franco-Canadian artist Hervé Fischer.

Curator: Catherine Bédard