HALL BUILDING, 1964
June 3 – September 22, 2026
A project by Alexia Laferté Coutu
Alexia Laferté Coutu (b. 1990) lives and works in Montreal / Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang. Her practice revolves around processes of imprinting and transposition, processes during which forms become imbued with memory and reveal layers of time normally invisible to the naked eye. Her sculptures and installations have been shown in solo and group exhibitions, notably at Galerie Nicolas Robert, Toronto (2023), the Darling Foundry, Montreal (2022), Occurrence, Montreal (2022), Doosan Gallery, Seoul (2020), and Pangée, Montreal (2019). Recipient of the Prix Pierre Ayot (2023), Laferté Coutu studied at Concordia University, Bauhaus Universität Weimar, and Université du Québec à Montréal. Her works are part of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and Ville de Montréal collections.
Plate glass, metal
Between the forces of formed concrete and igneous rock, as well as our own forces—those of Alexia, M, J, and myself, her ad hoc assistants. Between the materiality of our tools and the fragility of mulberry fibres and wet paper under Alexia’s brush, something new and delicate is created. To make is to take action in a world of active matter, matter with which we must contend, convey, and join forces.1 The paper is finally dry, and we organize the brushes, small tools, and precious moulds that will soon give form to wet plaster, and thus to the dry plaster where supple, hot glass will come to rest.
1 Tim Ingold. Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture, (Routledge, 2013), 20-22.
* Excerpted from exhibition text by François Lemieux
Alexia Laferté Coutu (b. 1990) lives and works in Montreal / Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang. Her practice revolves around processes of imprinting and transposition, processes during which forms become imbued with memory and reveal layers of time normally invisible to the naked eye. Her sculptures and installations have been shown in solo and group exhibitions, notably at Galerie Nicolas Robert, Toronto (2023), the Darling Foundry, Montreal (2022), Occurrence, Montreal (2022), Doosan Gallery, Seoul (2020), and Pangée, Montreal (2019). Recipient of the Prix Pierre Ayot (2023), Laferté Coutu studied at Concordia University, Bauhaus Universität Weimar, and Université du Québec à Montréal. Her works are part of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and Ville de Montréal collections.
June 19 – August 9, 2026
Love Song to End Colonization / Kanorónhkhwa’tshera Karenna’shón:’a Taká:taste ne Aionkhiia’tó:rarake
Curator: Tomas Jonsson
Peter Morin and Jimmie Kilpatrick
In the Gallery’s indoor vitrine
Artists Peter Morin and Jimmie Kilpatrick are friends who share an abiding love for karaoke and present it through their ongoing artistic collaboration, Love Songs to End Colonization / Kanorónhkhwa’tshera Karenna’shón:’a Taká:taste ne Aionkhiia’tó:rarake, a participatory karaoke project founded in kindness, joy, futurity, and engaging a collective voice through singing. Repurposing popular love songs, this project critiques, confronts, and dismantles the historical notions and the current presence of settler colonialism and utilizes karaoke as a methodology for social change.
“For those three minutes you are a star, and you feel like a star. And the people watching realize that they are watching a star. This performance is guided by those three minutes, and in those minutes we offer the singer a chance to reframe their relationship to colonization and the act of decolonizing in Canada.” — Peter Morin & Jimmie Kilpatrick
This exhibition, on view in the Gallery’s vitrine, brings together ephemera and documentation from past performances. The exhibition is open to the public every day from 7 AM to 11 PM on the ground floor of the McConnell Library Building, at 1400 boul. De Maisonneuve W.
Artists Peter Morin and Jimmie Kilpatrick are friends who share an abiding love for karaoke and present it through their ongoing artistic collaboration, Love Songs to End Colonization / Kanorónhkhwa’tshera Karenna’shón:’a Taká:taste ne Aionkhiia’tó:rarake, a participatory karaoke project founded in kindness, joy, futurity, and engaging a collective voice through singing. Repurposing popular love songs, this project critiques, confronts, and dismantles the historical notions and the current presence of settler colonialism and utilizes karaoke as a methodology for social change.
“For those three minutes you are a star, and you feel like a star. And the people watching realize that they are watching a star. This performance is guided by those three minutes, and in those minutes we offer the singer a chance to reframe their relationship to colonization and the act of decolonizing in Canada.” — Peter Morin & Jimmie Kilpatrick
This exhibition, on view in the Gallery’s vitrine, brings together ephemera and documentation from past performances. The exhibition is open to the public every day from 7 AM to 11 PM on the ground floor of the McConnell Library Building, at 1400 boul. De Maisonneuve W.