In connection with the exhibition Comfort and Indifference, the MAC invites you to a guided tour with artists Valérie Blass, Dana Michel and Tracy Maurice, 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.

Jannick Deslauriers

“Jannick Deslauriers was born in 1983 in Joliette, Quebec. She moved to Montreal, where she obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Concordia University in 2008. She then developed a large body of textile works over the course of more than a decade. Known for her ethereal sculptures, she continued her training at the Yale School of Art, where she acquired a master’s degree in sculpture between 2020 and 2022. Deslauriers has presented her works in various institutions in Quebec, including the Musée d’art de Joliette (2011), Circa art actuel (2011), the Biennale nationale de sculpture contemporaine de Trois-Rivières (2014), and Projet Casa (2020). In the spring of 2023, 1700 La Poste is dedicating a retrospective exhibition to her. Subsequently, the WIELS, a contemporary art centre in Brussels, welcomed her into its international residency program. There, she developed her project Seuils (“Thresholds”), presented at the Musée d’art de Joliette (2025) and then at the Musée d’art contemporain de Baie Saint-Paul (2026). With the artist Camille Charbonneau, she formed a duo and created the project Angels in Between, which will be unveiled at the Stems Gallery in Brussels in the spring of 2026. Her works are notably part of the collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; the collection of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; at the SEI in Oaks, Pennsylvania; the Coleccìon SOLO in Madrid; and in numerous corporate and private collections.”

This biographical note is in quotation marks, as it is signed by the artist

Credit: Béatrice Blondeau

Michel Huneault

“Michel Huneault is a documentary photographer and a visual artist based in Montreal. His practice focuses on issues related to development, trauma, migration, and other geographically complex realities, including the impact of climate and sanitary changes. He has a master’s degree from the University of California Berkeley, where he was a Rotary Peace Fellow studying the role of collective memory after large-scale traumatic events. Before devoting himself to photography, he worked in international development for more than a decade, including one year in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Recipient of the Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize 2015 for his documentation of the Lac-Mégantic tragedy, his work has been exhibited nationally (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, McCord Museum, Rimouski Museum) and internationally (Rencontres d’Arles, Biennale Images Vevey, Tokyo Arts and Space).”

This biographical note is in quotation marks, as it is signed by the artist

Photo: with the kind permission of the artist