L’art de perruquer / Parallel Play

A group exhibition presented by the Stewart Hall Art Gallery and the Musée d’art de Joliette.

L’art de perruquer / Parallel Play brings together the Stewart Hall Art Gallery and the Musée d’art de Joliette around a shared question: how can we reactivate places of memory, transmission, and exhibition as living, inhabited, and collective spaces?

Inspired by the concept of “perruquer,” as defined by Michel de Certeau, the exhibition highlights practices that subvert, invest, and discreetly transform institutional frameworks. The artists explore the interstices of the museum and the gallery, highlighting their fragments and margins and suggesting actions—sometimes furtive, sometimes participatory—that bring art closer to the everyday.

Far from being static, the exhibition spaces now become sites to collectively inhabit, activate, and reinvent.

Curators: Manel Benchabane and Ariane De Blois

Vernissage: Sunday, July 5, 2 p.m.

Legend: Studio Rat, L.D.P.E. (Lovely, Dreamy, Plastic Experience) Quilt, 2022. Photo : Nik Arthur

The exhibition will also take place at the Musée d’art de Joliette from June 20 to September 6. That opening will be held on Saturday, June 20, from 2 to 5 p.m. 

Visit the exhibition in Joliette