Arsenal Contemporary Art Montreal invites you to a panel discussion on Sabrina Ratté's exhibition Futurs spéculaires, Tuesday, July 4th, 2023
at 5:30 p.m!

In the presence of the artist, guests Vickie Vainionpää and Alice Jarry PhD, exhibition curator Erika Del Vecchio will lead the discussion around recurring themes in Futurs spéculaires: ecology, Anthropocene and research-creation in digital age. Join us on Tuesday, July 4 at 5:30 pm. A drink will be offered with the purchase of a general admission.

*The discussion will be held in English.

WHERE: Arsenal Contemporary Art Montreal - 2020 William Street, Montreal

WHEN: Tuesday, July 4, 2023 - 5:30

HOW:  We strongly recommend you buy a ticket online for the 5:30 p.m slot, you can also purchase a ticket on-site. A drink will be offered with every ticket purchased.

WHO:

Sabrina Ratté lives and works in Montreal (Canada). Her practice focuses on the multiple manifestations of the digital image: analog video, 3D animation, photography, printing, sculpture, virtual reality and installation. The continual integration of new techniques enables him to explore, in constantly renewed forms, the themes that run through his work: the influence of architecture and the digital environment on our perception of the world, our relationship with the virtual aspect of existence, the fusion between technology and the organic world. Her work has been shown in institutions such as the Musée Laforet (Tokyo, Japan), the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Canada), the Centre Pompidou (Paris, France), the Centre PHI (Montreal, Canada), the Whitney Museum of Art (New York City, United States), the Chronus Art Center (Shanghai, China), the Museum of the Moving Image (New York City, United States). Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Gaîté Lyrique (Paris, France) and Arsenal Contemporary Art (Montreal & New York).

Vickie Vainionpää lives and works in Montreal (Canada). Her artistic approach questions the impact of technology on the process of painting. She holds a Bachelor in Fine Art with Studio Art Specialization from the University of Waterloo. She has shown extensively internationally and is represented in the United States by The Hole, in Canada by Olga Korper Gallery, and in Italy by Nicola Pedana Gallery. She was recently a resident at Palazzo Monti (Brescia, Italy) and The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Banff, Canada). Recent exhibitions include a solo booth at NADA (Miami, United States), exhibitions at X Museum (Beijing, China) and The Margulies Warehouse (Miami, United States), and her latest solo exhibition, Metamorphoses at Belvedere di San Leucio in Italy which is running until July 15th 2023.

Alice Jarry is an artist-researcher and professor at the Design and Computation Arts department of Concordia University who specializes in site-specific responsive works, socio-environmental design, digital arts, tangible media, and community-oriented projects. Her research brings concerns about sustainability, aesthetics, and politics to bear critically upon materiality, material production, and contemporary matters-of-concern regarding urban communities and infrastructures. With matter inseparable from both form and practice, her installation works examine how materiality - engaged in constant processes of transformation and circulation with site, technology, and communities - can provoke the emergence of adaptive forms and resilient socio-environmental relations. Her current research focuses on residual matter and recycling/upcycling processes for glass. From natural resource extraction (Dust Silica, 2018) to current downcycling methods (Dust Agitator, 2018), Alice Jarry explores how the alliances between waste management infrastructure, design, art, and process philosophies can produce new modalities and experiences for residual matter.