Jean-Robert Drouillard

Untitled

2018

Text by Terence Sharpe There is a moment in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris (1972) when the character Hari commits suicide by drinking liquid oxygen. As she is not actually a human, but an artificial hybrid product of the mysterious planet and the protagonists’ memories, she heals rapidly and is alive again minutes later. Her choice to take her own life is poignant, seemingly the action of a being becoming aware of its hopeless infinitude. Her realization that while the men will die on the space station or elsewhere, her existence is that of immortality, a deeply alienating notion that causes her to seek her own destruction. The Montreal artist Guillaume Lachapelle has one work that prompts a sense of eternal alienation that echoes Hari’s tragedy. The work greets the viewer with a empty doorway flanked by clinically white bookshelves...

Text by Terence Sharpe There is a moment in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris (1972) when the character Hari commits suicide by drinking liquid oxygen. As she is not actually a human, but an artificial hybrid product of the mysterious planet and the protagonists’ memories, she heals rapidly and is alive again minutes later. Her choice to take her own life is poignant, seemingly the action of a being becoming aware of its hopeless infinitude. Her realization that while the men will die on the space station or elsewhere, her existence is that of immortality, a deeply alienating notion that causes her to seek her own destruction. The Montreal artist Guillaume Lachapelle has one work that prompts a sense of eternal alienation that echoes Hari’s tragedy. The work greets the viewer with a empty doorway flanked by clinically white bookshelves...

Place des Arts in Montreal is pleased to present Arnait by Karine Giboulo in its exhibition hall, a space for citizen reflection open to all. Central to her process is a friendship d...

Place des Arts in Montreal is pleased to present Arnait by Karine Giboulo in its exhibition hall, a space for citizen reflection open to all. Central to her process is a friendship d...

Place des Arts in Montreal is pleased to present Arnait by Karine Giboulo in its exhibition hall, a space for citizen reflection open to all. Central to her process is a friendship d...

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**ANNUAL SUPER SALE UNTIL JAN 31ST. ONLY** **THIS PRICE WON'T BE REPEATED AGAIN THIS YEAR - TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT** The "Lucky Baby Elephants" series is exclusive of Artist Mauro Oli...

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