April 22, Earth Day, is a day to think about our impact on the environment. The MAC team has put together a list of links and publications that explore dialogues between art and the environment in their political, historical and social dimensions.

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Guillaume Simoneau | Caroline Gagné | Kelly Jazvac | Sabrina Ratté | Tomas Saraceno | Shuvinai Ashoona

 

Guillaume Simoneau

These images were taken at IISD Experimental Lakes Area— the world’s freshwater laboratory. A series of 58 lakes and their watersheds in northwestern Ontario, Canada, IISD-ELA is the only place in the world where scientists can research on and manipulate real lakes to build a more accurate and complete picture of what human activity is doing to freshwater lakes. The findings from over 50 years of ground-breaking research have rewritten environmental policy around the world—from mitigating algal blooms to reducing how much mercury gets into our waterways—and aim to keep freshwater clean around the world for generations to come.

When the federal government announced that it would end funding for the site in Bill C-38, the Québec artist Guillaume Simoneau visited in 2014-2015 to produce a set of images imbued with the beauty of the site and with the scientists’ objections to stopping their research.

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Caroline Gagné

Le bruit des icebergs (detail), 2016

HD video, colour, loop, sound, 18 min, glass panel and 5 speakers
Variable dimensions
Collection Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
© Caroline Gagné
Photo: courtesy of the artist

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Caroline Gagné, Le bruit des icebergs (video excerpt – detail), 2016
HD video, colour, loop, sound, 18 min, glass panel and 5 speakers
Variable dimensions
Collection Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
© Caroline Gagné
Photo: courtesy of the artist
 
 

 

 

Kelly Jazvac

They Forgot They Were a Landscape, 2020

Salvaged banner, thread, metal chair frames, upholstery tacks and grommets
Variable dimensions
Collection Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
©Kelly Jazvac
Photo: Paul Litherland

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Sabrina Ratté

Floralia, 2021

4 HD videos, colour, loop, sound and wallpaper, 1/3
Variable dimensions
Collection Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
©Sabrina Ratté
Photo: Greg Carideo, courtesy of Arsenal Contemporay Art Gallery, New York

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Tomás Saraceno

Hybrid solitary semi-social 54 Tauri built by: a duet of Linyphia triangularis – three weeks, a nonet of Cyrtophora citricola – three weeks, rotated 180°, 2017

Spider webs, glass, carbon fiber, stainless steel and lighting system
42 x 61.4 x 61.3 cm (glass box)
Collection Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
© Tomás Saraceno
Photo: Richard-Max Tremblay

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Shuvinai Ashoona

Sans titre, 2021

Graphite, colour pencils and ink on paper, 248.5 x 127 cm
Collection Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
©Shunivai Ashoona
Photo: Courtesy of the artist, Dorset Fine Arts and Galerie Hugues Charbonneau

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