The spontaneity of painting “natural” or “ordinary” landscapes is deeply embedded in my neurons.
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Zamudio can share her vision of life—fluid like a dream, deep like blood.
Works of art reveal themselves to me, rather than my creating or composing preconceived notions.
As I mourned my father's death, I wondered how my family would cope with this tragedy in a politically fraught nation.
Using lint as her "go-to material," Justine Béliveau's selected works speak to realities beyond the surface.
Biomimicry highlights nature's lessons on collaboration and growth, urging a return to our foundational roots.
Exploring the traces of time and presence
Unveiling Israel's structures of segregation, confinement, surveillance, and restrictions on freedom in the occupied West Bank
In the shadow of history, Iranian women's bodies bear the scars of intergenerational grief
It seems now more than ever that we are faced with crises upon crises
Patrick Visentin's practice explores the interstice and interplay of fact and fiction through the fusion of analogue and digital mediums and methods of creation.
My name is Alix Van Der Donckt-Ferrand. I was born in 1995 and I live in Montréal. I make drawings, objects and music under the name La Cucurucha. Many of the images I draw have a synchretic component, a mixing […]
Haïti gained independence through a revolution led by those who experienced slavery firsthand.
Artist statement Working quietly for decades on a singular pursuit is what draws me, letting the pieces speak for themselves. This body of work is a study in power and refinement. For more on Eric James Jensen’s artwork, please visit […]
[Editorial note: Serai editor Rana Bose was intrigued by the autobiographical story submitted by Miriam Edelson, from Toronto. “Intrigued” would perhaps be the wrong word. It was more of a sense of resonance with a time in the […]
dans la sculpture comme dans la musique on retrouve la forme, le mouvement, le tempo
Making artwork is my way of making peace with the inner battles that haunt me. I don’t belong anywhere, but I belong everywhere because of it.
Tell Mother, I’m Home is a series of images and text that I have been working on since May 2018. The photographs, previously manual – both film photographs and instant film/Polaroid – have been digitized for the series […]
I’ve been making a series of hand-embroidered interventions on printed fabric. The images of various places and people come back to the common theme of subjects unable (or unwilling) to be claimed. This unfinished business is embodied by […]
Introduction Displaced Garden is the latest work of Montréal-based Iranian artist Anahita Norouzi, exploring the legacies of botanical exploration, plant-collecting and documentation inherited from colonial scientific expeditions. Taking the form of a photographic book containing 18 cyanotype impressions of […]
In my early school days, I was frequently sent out of class and instructed by the teacher to draw pictures on the walls of the hallway in chalk.
Artist’s Statement All through my training in sketching and painting, I was inspired by Bargue and Gérôme’s Cours de dessin to reproduce what I saw in real life and the natural world. Included below is one of my sketches […]
After we learned to live with the plague, we learned to survive without the city’s darkness, thanks to the curfew. It is clear what we have lost in this pandemic: lives, loved ones, health, jobs, businesses, fearlessness, spontaneity, the […]
The effects of intergenerational trauma on both my family and community are felt every day.
What are the ethical concerns with bringing Indigenous languages into cyberspace?
They were right in front of us and I was shaking so much I almost shot my dad’s Ski-doo windshield.
thin figures twisting, pleasuring, labouring....
“Through removal and erasure of the paint from the surface of the canvas initially covered in blue, the final imagery appears as the result of an uncovering.”
Montréal Serai editor Claudia Itzkowich visited Amanda Woolrich in her studio to prepare this piece. An etching press presides over Amanda Woolrich’s apartment/art studio in Mexico City. Next to it hangs Amanda’s camera, looking down from a rustic […]
Stanley Février’s art gets under your skin. It calls you and keeps calling. It engages more of you than you know. Heart and mind and spirit remember. Flesh remembers. You feel the expanse, the height, the depth. The […]
