February 18 to April 24, 2022

Critérium

Salle d’attentes

Salle d’attentes is a three-part exhibition inviting artists to show works in stage-set spaces with the objective of exploring waiting, expectations, and the interplay between the two. Proceeding from the principle that magic emerges from diverted expectations, the exhibition offers works that undermine outcomes viewers anticipate, and that address various forms of expectation, whether temporal or experiential. 

First, Karine Payette fills the space with an earlier work entitled Sur un coin de table, which pits our human impulses against the code of propriety expected in an art gallery.

Second, Vincent Hinse once again asks the public to solve a visual puzzle in an installation that combines video and sculpture.

Third, Stéfanie Tremblay completes the cycle of expectations with Lettre à la commissaire, a project created over a lengthy period during the 2020 lockdowns.

All three artists explore in their own ways their relationships to temporality and to the uncertainties of art and the reflexes it triggers.

The exhibition is presented with a pamphlet from the curator to help interpret and continue your experience in the gallery space. This publication collects poetic and theoretical texts on each of the works and on the curator’s expectations.