S’éclipser : Phases of Resilience
With Elisa Gleize, Joselyn McDonald et Sarah Friend
Online, via NT2’s website
S’éclipser : Phases of Resilience, presented as part of the HTMlles Festival, calls on the motif of metamorphosis through a techno critical and ecofeminist perspective. The three artworks bring to light hybrid creatures, propose transformations or deformations, and invite us to imagine new material and symbolic configurations of our precarious present.
These metamorphoses act as screens for our protection and active reflection, based on the principle of a disappearance necessary to the (re)poetization of the world, a calculated step back that leaves room for other resilient agencies.
In Mex and the animals by Elisa Gleize, Mother_Protect_Me by Joselyn McDonald and Becoming Illegible by Sarah Friend, simulation, distorsion, and abstraction question and challenge the universal human subject, its image, as well as the androcentric and anthropocentric systems on which it depends. The artworks create spaces of life, hope and opposition, reflecting the world’s fragility and structures like a distorting mirror in order to inspire subtle disobedience.
S’éclipser : Phases of Resilience is synchronized with Montreal’s sunlight hours. The exhibition web site is hosted on a Raspberry Pi with a capacity of 8 GB. The visibility of the artworks and the access to the exhibition are thus tied to local weather conditions and to technological restrictions in an effort to significantly reduce the exhibition’s carbon footprint.
