PICASSO: BECOMING THE FAUN at REMAI MODERN

“Picasso: Becoming the Faun” opens at the Remai Modern on June 3 where Picasso’s linocuts “Tête de faune” provide the starting point for a multifaceted exhibition that explores the formation of self, processes of change and ideas of becoming. “Becoming the Faun” features additional works from the Remai Modern’s collection by Bridget Moser, Elaine Cameron-Weir, John Kavik and Dominque Rey that touch on ideas related to the body, hybridity, identity and mythology.

Curated by Troy Gronsdahl

The exhibition runs from June 3 - October 22, 2023

LE VIDE ENTRE NOS CORPS at VU

Opening February 24, 2023 at VU in Quebec City, Le vide entre nos corps (The void between our bodies) is a solo exhibition of photo and sculptural works that unravel the myriad transformations of early motherhood and the relentless balance/imbalance that is at stake. These performative images explore notions of presence and absence, attachment and desire, blurring the corporeal and psychic edges that link mother and child.

The exhibition runs from February 24 - March 26, 2023.

Correspondent Screening Program: Gesture as Ellipsis at Blinkers

My video Funambule is part of the "Correspondent Screening Program: Gesture as Ellipsis" curated by Luther Konadu at Blinkers Art and Project Space on until February 26, 2023. 

The screening brings together seven artists with filmic and video works that consider performance for/with the camera, expanded forms of choreography, as well as experimental approaches to narration and criticality through the moving image. Where spoken or written language trails off into unintelligible dots; movement, action, and gesture take over and allow for a different possibility for legibility. Here, the dead air of an ellipsis becomes a fruitful fissure for the artists united for the screening. 

Participating artists include Selin Davasse, Zhiyuan Yang, Dominique Rey, Julien Prévieux, Ekene Emeka Maduka, Camille Rojas, Emmanuelle Lainé & Benjamin Valenza. 

Le septième pétale d’une tulipe-monstre

JAN 25 – MAR 26 2023

Opening : JAN 25 2023, 17 h | 5 PM

Galerie d’art Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen, Université de Moncton

Artists:

Caroline Boileau
Mimi Haddam
Ikumagialiit
Helena Martin Franco
Dominique Rey
Winnie Truong

Curator : Elise Anne LaPlante

Parallel Programming: 

Artist talk with Dominique Rey (in French) : 25 JAN, Noon, 001 – B, Beaux-arts, Université de Moncton

The granular texture of my borrowed feelings
opens me up to the subtleties of subterranean strata,
to a swamp-body groaning and gurgling from its voiceless burrow.

I interweave my umbilical guts with those of my own invention;
I drift into a vast field, imagined and sensuous.

How does normativity and its many forms control our bodies? How might an exploration of the somatic imaginary uncover the potential contained in the tension between different transitional and circulatory states? Le septième pétale d’une tulipe-monstre [the seventh petal of the tulip creature] encompasses three exhibitions that invite us to reflect on ways of seeing the body that challenge its normative boundaries. These exhibitions bring together practices that reclaim and reconsider hybrid and uncertain bodies, bodies that explore the possibilities of metamorphosis. Each exhibition will include new articulations of the works and the relationships between them.

Image: Funambule by Dominique Rey & text piece by Mimi Haddam

Image credit: Mathieu Leger

21 (3X7=21) HOURS OF LINDA MARY MONTANO’S 80TH BIRTHDAYARAMA →

January 18-19, 2022, 7am - 4am

A 21-hour Zoom endurance broadcast to celebrate Linda Mary Montano’s amazing legacies, teachings, videos and art/life. During this historic event, performance artists, lifeists and organizations around the Earth connected online to perform, tell stories related to Linda Mary Montano, remember stories from her times teaching, and watch some of her videos. All 21 hours are viewable at Franklin Furnace

I performed Mother Mound with my children Madeleine and Auguste. (viewable at 12:21:33)

Organized by Franklin Furnace, Grace Exhibition Space, Streamside 7, Unison Arts, E.A.R.T.H. Lab (Environmental Art, Research, Theory & Happenings, San Francisco), Three Phase Center, and The Interior Beauty Salon.

IF I HAVE A BODY at the REMAI MODERN

Remai Modern, Saskatoon
102 Spadina Crescent East

May 31 - September 2, 2019

If I have a body presents new and recent work by six Canadian artists: Shuvinai Ashoona, Steven Beckly, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Laurie Kang, Veronika Pausova and Dominique Rey. The title, drawn from a poem by Belcourt, considers the body as a proposition, an unstable form shaped by imagination, desire, vulnerability and exchange. The artists are brought together in dynamic pairings, creating dialogue between their works. 

Organized by Rose Bouthillier, Curator (Exhibitions); Sandra Fraser, Curator (Collections); and Troy Gronsdahl, Associate Curator (Live Programs)

Interview with Dominique Rey

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Exhibition

Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg
300 Memorial Blvd

November 30, 2018 - March 17, 2019

Behind Closed Doors features artwork by: Ian August, Irene Bindi, Mia Feuer, Takashi Iwasaki, Shaun Morin & Melanie Rocan, Kristin Nelson, Matea Radic, Dominique Rey, and Robert Taite

The latest exhibit from the WAG's New Contemporary series reveals what is rarely seen by the public—the artist's process in their studio and their research from the museum vault. Often viewers only witness the complete ‘finished work' in art exhibitions. Behind Closed Doors shares some of the research, experimentation, and the trajectory of a body of work in progress: how an idea is developed and how it evolves. 

Curated by Jaimie Isaac, WAG Curator of Indigenous & Contemporary Art

Tundrunning on VUCAVU

Tundrunning is now available for screening on VUCACU

THE SUPERORGANISM at GALLERI BOX

Galleri Box, Sweden
Kastellgatan 10, Göteborg

November 10 - December 10 2017

The Superorganism includes the work of Participating Artists: Aganetha Dyck – CA, Anja Carr – NO, Dominique Rey – CA, Laura White – UK, Linda Tedsdotter – SE, Yngvild Saeter – NO

With sculpture as a starting point, the exhibition becomes a cross section where artistic practices that in different ways address space, the object and materiality, exist in synergy. The artworks act as embodiments of questions as well as responses to different cultural and natural phenomena; bronies, cruisers, cars, society, power, bees, materiality, the universe, what it means to be alive today and the end of the world.

Curators Josefina Posch & Alexandra Nyman

(Image credit: Hendrik Zeitler)

ISOLATED LANDSCAPES: VIDEO BY PRAIRIE WOMEN (1984-2009)

Isolated Landscapes: Video by Prairie Women (1984-2009), Winnipeg

Organized by Video Pool Media Arts Centre and Platform Centre for Photographic & Digital Arts

November 3-December 1, 2017

Curator Kathy Rae Huffman
Isolated Landscapes: Video by Prairie Women (1984-2009) is a major exhibition of the history of video art by women who live and work in the central Canadian region, or who have been informed by years of residing in (or growing up in) the region. The nineteen works in the exhibition (by twenty-one artists) were produced between 1984 -2009 and play a prominent role in the history of Winnipeg’s legendary Video Pool Media Arts Centre.

All the works are held in the archives of Video Pool Media Arts Centre, many had early support from the organization, and demonstrates the many regional partnerships and mutual support of artists and agencies in the region.  

Artists: Sharon Alward , Thirza Jean Cuthand, Shawna Dempsey, Nida Home Doherty, Elvira Finnigan, Wendy Geller, Garland Lam, Erika MacPherson, Maureen Medved, Divya Mehra, Lorri Millan, Hope Peterson, Heidi Phillips, Dominique Rey, Nicole Shimonek, Jennifer Stillwell, Reva Stone, Leslie Supnet, Sheila Urbanoski, and Lori Weidenhammer

(Still from Selling Venus/Vénus au miroir, Dominique Rey, 2005)