Don’t miss the exhibition of works by Dora García, one of the most internationally recognized Spanish artist.

The exhibition Of Crimes and Dreams unfolds on the backdrop of a series of group conversations in the spring of 2013 at the Montperrin psychiatric hospital in Aix-en-Provence, where Dora García had people read James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake and Félix Guattari’s 65 rêves de Franz Kafka, as a pretext for talking about what is real and unreal before the camera.

The film Désordre (2013), an offshoot of this project, will be shown, along with Hôtel Wolfers (2007) and The Joycean Society (2013), the previous films it echoes. This closes the circle traced since Hôtel Wolfers in which Beckett, Kafka, Joyce, Walser wander as in a dream, in their capacity as models of the “minor literature” theorized by Deleuze. J. Lacan Wallpaper (2013) covers one of the walls to mark the blindspots of inner space, as Lacan’s hieroglyphs for the unconscious bloom like discreet flowers on its partitions. The gallery’s windows are likewise covered with signs referring to ideas connected to everything that goes on in this peculiar universe (Mad Marginal Charts, 2014). Thus, crimes and dreams go side by side and haunt us from all sides, revealing the complexity and richness of the imagination.

Since 2009, Dora García has been carrying out the Mad Marginal project, major stages of which were shown at the recent Documenta XII in Kassel and at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2012, where the artist was featured at the Spanish Pavilion. Her work examines the foundations of artistic experience, altering the traditional relationships between artist, work, and viewer, as well as those of the individual, whose daily behaviour she questions through performance, film, and discussion.

About Dora García

Dora García is an internationally recognized artist. She has represented Spain at the last Venice Biennale in 2011 and was present again in 2012 with a work produced through Price Prince Pierre of Monaco, who was awarded the same year. She was also named co -director of Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers in Paris in 2013, and provides a parallel position of professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Lyon.

She was one of the great figures exposing dOCUMENTA 13 in 2012 Klau Mich: Radicalism in Society Meets Experiment on TV. Her work is largely performative and deals with issues related to community and individuality in contemporary society, exploring the political potential of marginal positions, paying homage to the eccentric characters, anti-heroes. For several years, she leads a project called The Mad Marginal, in which she investigates figures from the literary history (Bertold Brecht and James Joyce), psychoanalysis and other fields in the humanities.

Opening hours: Wednesday – Sunday, from 12 noon to 7 pm; Thursday until 10 pm.

Venue

Darling Foundry, 745 Rue Ottawa, Montréal, QC H3C 1R8

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514-392-1554

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