HALL BUILDING, 1964
May 25 – 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, steel
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 Ingold, T., Anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture, Routledge (2013)
* 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.