L’ÉCHO DES LIMBES
David Altmejd
Patrice Duhamel
Michael A. Robinson
Ève K. Tremblay

October 14 to November 19, 2005
Opening: Thursday, October 13, 2005 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Curator: Nathalie de Blois



Tour of the exhibition in conversation with the curator and artists: Thursday, October 13, at 4:30 pm

Catalogue launch:
Wednesday, November 9, 6:30 pm

Film screening of Lost Highway by David Lynch:
Wednesday, November 9, 7:30 pm

Entrance is free but a reservation is recommended for the screening: 848-2424 ext. 4750

“How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went just as usual. I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I’m not the same, the next question is “Who in the world am I?”
Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

L’écho des limbes examines the recurrent dialogue between the world of exterior phenomena and interior representation marked by the expectations of desire and the deep awareness of another reality. Inspired by the works of Victorian author Lewis Carroll, this exhibition, which brings together the work of four Montreal artists, invites the viewer to delve – like Alice pursuing the White Rabbit – into interior worlds which seek to describe these transitory states.

Through video, sculpture and photography, David Altmejd, Patrice Duhamel, Michael A. Robinson and Ève K. Tremblay create art works with multiple iconographic references that open into parallel worlds. As real or imaginary personal fragments, these invented universes operate a form of investigation where the common motif is a reference to the unconscious, an un-premeditated journey into a psychic labyrinth. Whether through dream imagery, tales, delirium or the absurd, these artists explore an ulterior place and time where the process of inner transformation informs both origin and destiny. Like a labyrinth, this process is neither linear nor direct, but twists and turns through a ramified network of thoughts. Enigmatic and infused with a dream-like quality, the work of these artists questions the foundation of reason while demonstrating the weakness of our convictions.
Text by: Nathalie de Blois

The Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery‘s contemporary exhibition program is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. L’écho des limbes received funding from le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.

  

Michael A. Robinson, Pastiche,
(wood, organ, audio/ bois, orgue, son), 2005