In connection with the exhibition Comfort and Indifference, the MAC invites you to a guided tour with artists Ari Bayuaji et Dayna Danger, presented in the exhibition spaces of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
Please note: to attend this exhibition walkthrough, you must hold a general admission ticket to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, in addition to reserving your place here.
Ari Bayuaji
“Born in Indonesia in 1975, Ari Bayuaji studied fine arts at Concordia University from 2005 to 2010 and, while based in Montreal, also works at his artistic practice in Bali. Bayuaji is an expert at conveying aspects of daily life within a culture; his works often expose the overlooked artistic value of everyday life expressed through objects and places and their roles within a society.
His works can be found in the permanent collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, and the Taguchi Ary Collection Tokyo and have been presented in solo exhibitions in Singapore, Taipei, Ste-Alvère (France), Düsseldorf, Rotterdam, Toronto, Sydney, Bangkok, Washington, D.C., and Yogyakarta. Bayuaji recently created installations of his Weaving the Ocean project at the Bangkok Biennial 2024, at the Espace pour la Vie de la Biosphère in Montreal, and at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo.”
This biographical note is in quotation marks, as it is signed by the artist
Photo: with the kind permission of the artist
Dayna Danger
“Dayna Danger (they/them) is a Two-Spirit, Indigiqueer, Métis-Saulteaux-Polish visual artist, hide tanner, and traditional drummer. Danger was born in misâskwatômina (Treaty 6, Saskatoon) and raised on Treaty 1 territory. Danger explores various mediums in their artworks, including sculpture, photography, performance, and video. Danger’s art is an act of reclaiming space and power over society’s projections of sexualities and Queer representation.
Their photographic portrait series, Big’Uns, was featured on the cover of the Canadian Art “Kinship” issue in the summer of 2017. Recent exhibitions include ÀBADAKONE at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa (2019) and Indexing Resistance at The Plump in Toronto (2022). Danger’s art was long-listed for the 2021 Sobey Art Award. Danger was a recent artist fellow for The Indigenous International: Green Architecture Project in Kenya, supported by the Soul of Nations Foundation in New York, U.S. (2021–2022). Danger has participated in residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts and Plug-In Institute (2012, 2017) and was recently the Indigenous Artist in Residence at McGill University (2021). Danger is pursuing a doctorate at Concordia University, focusing on Two-Spirit roles and responsibilities through photography, hide-tanning, and kinship.”
This biographical note is in quotation marks, as it is signed by the artist
Credit: Carole Lyne Robin, with the kind permission of the artist
