Reading-procession
Thursday March 27, 2025 — 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm @ Artexte
As the exhibition Healing From What We Can draws to a close, you are invited to attend a reading-procession where the exhibited garments will become memories in motion. Quotes and excerpts featured on the pieces will take on both body and voice in a live reading. For one evening, these garments will leave the gallery walls to be worn—as a tribute, but also as a reminder that this story is not over. Those who wear them will, in turn, become bearers of histories tied to HIV/AIDS.
Schedule:
- 7:00 pm: performance
- 8:00 pm: bar opens
Guillaume Brisson-Darveau is an artist and researcher living in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal. His most recent projects have been strongly influenced by reflection on the body, the hybrid body, and representations of the body transformed by contemporary society. The works that emerge from this research are situated at the intersection of sculpture, performance, and fashion. Through his images and forms, Brisson-Darveau attempts to describe a human condition and its complexity, and to bring to light a world filled with possibilities, desires, and fears.
Brisson-Darveau’s work has been presented in Canada and internationally, including at the Biennale CONTEXTILE (Guimarães, 2024), the MACBA (Buenos Aires, 2023), the Biennale nationale de sculpture contemporaine in Trois-Rivières (2022), Engramme (202), and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo – Parque Forestal (Santiago, 2018). He has attended numerous artist residencies, including at the La Ira de Dios and the cheLA Centro Hipermediático Experimental Latinoamericano (Buenos Aires, 2023 and 2019), the NARS Foundation (New York, 2021), and the Atelier Mondial (Basel, 2018). He is currently a doctoral student in art studies and practices at UQAM; his research is articulated around accounts of the experience of “trouble” through a material practice.