As part of its 19th edition, MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain is proposing to the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal the presentation of recent works and a few new productions by five artists: Sanaz Sohrabi (Quebec/Iran), Maureen Gruben (Northwest Territories), Omar Victor Diop & Lee Shulman (Senegal/France/England), Ivan Argote (Colombia/France), and Joyce Joumaa (Quebec/Lebanon).
In Praise of the Missing Image
MOMENTA Biennale d'art contemporain
By focusing on what escapes visibility, silences and gaps in individual and collective memory, the works assembled here address both the contemporary stakes of the image and the present day consequences of the complex dynamics behind narrative construction. In Praise of the Missing Image, in this context, invites reflection on how the stories we are told are shaped and by whom. By bringing to the MAC a range of media including photography, sculpture, installation, and video, MOMENTA proposes an exhibition centered on colonialism and its various symbolic ramifications, notably historical monuments, sport, extractivism, and the climate crisis. The works, which shed light on the mechanisms of ongoing exclusion and marginalization, question the gaze and open up the poetic potential of images to diversify dominant historical narratives.
About the 19th edition of MOMENTA
In a world saturated with images, some, strangely, are lacking. This edition of MOMENTA aims to open up multiple perspectives for experimentation and speculation on the nature, uses, and production of missing images. In Praise of the Missing Image explores both contemporary challenges in relation to the image and the current consequences of the complex dynamics involved in constructing narratives. Which stories are told, how, and by whom?