Paris Gallery Weekend
Special Openings: late-openings and guided tours...
Centre culturel canadien
May 19th, 2022 - May 20th, 2022
18:00 - 21:00
On the occasion of Paris Gallery Weekend 2022, the Centre culturel canadien will be open on May 19 and 20 from 6pm to 9pm! Take advantage of these late-openings to discover our new exhibition The Art of Living, with Xiaojing Yan, Jude Abu Zaineh et Soheila Esfahani!
Lineup:
Free visit of the exhibition from 6pm to 9pm (last entrance 8:30pm)
- 6pm: 1st guided tour of the exhibition with our curator, Catherine Bédard
- 7.30pm: 2nd guided tour of the exhibition with our curator, Catherine Bédard
Unknown to each other, from distant countries, these three artists and their work are coming together for the first time. What they have in common is the always strange feeling of living in an in-between place, not quite rooted, suspended between two worlds, attached to the symbols of belonging to their cultures of origin, yet diverting them. Food, desire, religion and protection are all issues in their art, as are technology, globalization and consumer society.
Both Eastern and Western, these women who came to Canada from China, Palestine and Iran forge ties that transform, distort and augment strong symbolic images: a staircase, a bridge, a word, a poem, decorative motifs, myths and legends. They give another dimension to the notion of cultural identity by presenting the viewer with hybrid and industrialized objects that are denatured, far from any idealization of the elsewhere and the past. A blood-red filamentary goddess, decorative motifs teeming with biological life, commercial reproductions of a traditional bird from 3D prints and other works that allow symbols to freely migrate constitute a powerful, intimate reflection on an art of displacement and diaspora.
The Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris is a partner of Paris Gallery Weekend 2022.