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Drawing on film noir tropes while deploying visual essayism as an investigatory mode, Miles Rufelds reconciles authenticatory images with deceptive illusions around a legendary figure of experimental film.

Miles Rufelds, _It’s Not Brakhage_, 2024, still, video, 54 min 39 s. Courtesy of the artist.

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Miles Rufelds. A Hall of Mirrors

Miles Rufelds  
A Hall of Mirrors

This wide-ranging research project examining the history, future and documentation of exhibitions in Quebec. Its goal is to observe the past using conceptual tools of the present to inscribe these exemplary cases in a history-in-the-making. Thus it is by working backward (“à rebours”) that we are studying the practice of exhibitions in Quebec, following the threads of the multiple stories that have made up its narrative fabric up to now. 

This series of reactivations has allowed us to assemble an exhaustive archive of heretofore unseen documentary material—hundreds of visual, audio and text documents—in combination with reactivations of performances and present-day accounts, which we now want to make available for future research. While it is true that Créer à rebours vers l’exposition has aimed to constitute archives that were often non-existent in the cases studied, the reactivations differed considerably in their approaches, encompassing a theatre stage, an installation, the page layout of a catalogue, a reactivation of a performance, a voluminous lightbox, and a period room, thus creating specific documentary experiences that were both active and enlightening. [Read more](https://storage.googleapis.com/centre-vox-strapi-prod-uploads/0_A_Posteriori_En_81214da845/0_A_Posteriori_En_81214da845.pdf)


Créer à rebours vers l’exposition

This documentary exhibition aims at charting the development of site-specific installations in the city between 1980 and 1989.

View of the installation Blind Date #1 : entrevue by Claire Paquet & Suzanne Paquet

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“Créer à rebours vers l’exposition”: The case of site-specific interventions in Montréal

“Créer à rebours vers l’exposition”  
The case of site-specific interventions in Montréal

In these outsized installations that combine video, weaving, sound and sculpture, Michaëlle&nbsp;Sergile offers a reflection on bereavement.

Image of a work in the exhibition And Then, Perhaps, a Memory by Michaëlle Sergile

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Michaëlle Sergile. And Then, Perhaps, a Memory

Michaëlle Sergile  
And Then, Perhaps, a Memory

This edition of MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain aims to open up multiple perspectives for experimentation and speculation on the nature, uses and production of missing images.

MOMENTA x VOX. Frida Orupabo. On Lies, Secrets and Silence

MOMENTA x VOX  
Frida Orupabo  
On Lies, Secrets and Silence

In this specific new production, Moridja Kitenge Banza offers children and adults alike an artistic reflection on public monuments, museums and collective memory.

Moridja Kitenge Banza. Once Upon a Time, Malaika

Moridja Kitenge Banza  
Once Upon a Time, Malaika

In celebration of its 40th anniversary, VOX is looking back on the images from the 1980s that have acted as catalysts for the transformation of our world.

1985. Image-Worlds

This exhibition brings together video installations on the ambivalent connections of intimate familiarity, domination and control between humans and animals.

Janis Rafa. Landscape Depressions

Janis Rafa  
Landscape Depressions

Made in collaboration with workers from the Global South, Bertille Bak's installations address the labour exploitation in the age of the globalized market economy.

Bertille Bak. Mon Sud est ton Nord

Bertille Bak  
Mon Sud est ton Nord

Curated by Nicole Gingras, this exhibition revolves around the work _La Grande Dame_ (2018-2022) by artist Alexandre Larose.

Alexandre Larose. Chutes

Alexandre Larose  
Chutes

Past

VOX’s programming is firmly oriented toward research and experimentation, investigating the conceptual paradigms underpinning image practices. Individual exhibitions offer re-readings of both contemporary and historical art practices, while thematic exhibitions see us engaged in processes of reflection. 

VOX développe une programmation résolument orientée sur la recherche et l’expérimentation en interrogeant les paradigmes conceptuels à l’œuvre dans les pratiques de l’image. Des expositions individuelles proposent une relecture de l’art tant actuel qu’historique tandis que des expositions thématiques nous engagent dans des processus réflexifs. 

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