An exhibition by Céline Huyghebaert
October 4 – December 14, 2024
“The Omissions are those missing pieces subtracted from history, the voluntary or involuntary gaps, the voids, the holes in official stories. But they are also the suppressions we impose upon ourselves: everything we keep quiet about, everything we prevent from happening.
This project outlines a fragmentary portrait [of a.]; a fictional artist, a montage composed of voices, images, and documents gathered over the course of correspondences and residencies in documentation centres – at La Chambre blanche (2016), and at Artexte (2018-2019) … I asked myself if it was possible to describe a history of art that is not about success or productivity, but rather one that is found in the gaps of these documents, in what is left unsaid.” ⎯ Céline Huyghebaert
Read the exhibition booklet HERE
Take a look at the exhibited documents HERE
Céline Huyghebaert develops a grammar of silence at the crossroads of literature and the visual arts. In her books, exhibitions and collaborations, text blends with print, collage, photography, ceramics, video and installation. Her projects are long-term investigations, unearthing fragments of what has been lost or neglected, and organizing them into a narrative. She weaves together a plurality of voices – real and fictional, intimate and scientific — to recreate connections where they have gone missing, to give shape to what has been erased or forgotten. She has been awarded several major recognitions, including the Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art for her artistic practice (2019), the Governor General’s Literary Award for Le drap blanc (Le Quartanier, 2019) and the CALQ Artist in the Community Award for from our bodies to your heart, a book produced with people diagnosed with cancer (2023).