You have just a few more days to appreciate the exhibition Reflections by Claude Simard at Galerie Projex-Mtl.
On display are Simard’s remarkable objects of dark and fragile beauty, carefully preserved in heavy plexiglass boxes. They capture a process of arrested decay: a ladder literally covered in flies who appear to ascend carrying a mass of human hair and beads (the remains of a head?), more flies totally envelope the ‘portrait’ of the artist’s sister, a human skull mounted on a length of upholstery fabric featuring WWII bombers over a map of the Americas. Simard selected items with a symbolic, autobiographical meaning, making this exhibition a personal journey. I especially appreciated the tension between the visceral revulsion evoked by some of the chosen material (ie the dead flies) as it plays against the beauty of the object itself.

Galerie Projex-Mtl
space 212
Claude Simard
Reflections
exhibition period: February 4 – March 21, 2009
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