The Art of Revealing: acquisitions
At the heart of the MAC’s mission is its collection: each work acquired contributes to the richness of our heritage and a better understanding of our times. Although the acquisition budget is limited, the Museum is constantly striving to enrich its collection and support artists. During its transformation project, it continues to enhance the collection. Last year, 32 works by local and international artists were added.
At the last Plural Art Fair, the MAC launched an initiative to support Quebec-based artists. Thanks to the Fonds Paule-Poirier, the Museum has enriched its collection with works by Lorna Bauer, Joyce Joumaa, Joseph Tisiga and Laïla Mestari. For three of these four artists, this is the first time their works have entered the MAC collection. Such recognition by an institution like the MAC can be a decisive turning point in an artist’s career, and the Museum is proud to be able to accompany them on their journey. To continue making an impact, the MAC needs your help!
Plural 2024 acquisitions
About Joseph Tisiga
degenerates prayer (fireside angel), 2024, watercolor on paper and adhesive, 69.9 x 69.9 cm
Joseph Tisiga is a Montreal-based multidisciplinary artist and member of the Kaska Dena Nation. His practice as a painter and illustrator integrates performance, photography, sculpture and installation. His work questions identity and how it is formed at the crossroads of communities, nationalities, families, histories, places and memories, both real and imagined. His works evoke different socio-cultural heritages, everyday life, metaphysics and mythology. The artist translates her interests into non-linear narratives, situated between cultures and beyond the natural.
Photo : Alistair Maitland
Credits: Joseph Tisiga, degenerates prayer (fireside angel), 2024, © Joseph Tisiga. Photo : William Bobby Sabourin, courtesy of Bradly Ertaskiran
About Joyce Joumaa
Dekkene, Ehden, 2024, inkjet on archival wove paper, stainless steel case, computerized timer, light, single print, 19 x 16 x 10 cm
Joyce Joumaa is an artist who works between Beirut and Montreal. After spending her youth in Lebanon, she completed a BFA in Film Studies at Concordia University in Montreal. In her work, she translates micro-stories from Lebanese reality in order to understand how the structures of the past inform the present moment. She is particularly interested in the political charge of different urban spaces and the social psychology that emanates from the tensions between private and public life.
Photo : courtesy of the artist
Credits : Joyce Joumaa, Dekkene, Ehden, 2024, © Joyce Joumaa. Photo: courtesy of Galerie Eli Kerr
About Laïla Mestari
Le retour des légendes, 2024, colored pencil on paper and marquetry, 101.6 x 86.4 cm
Born in Morocco and living in Montreal, Laïla Mestari is an artist whose work draws on the tradition of collage and assemblage. She works with textiles, drawing, video and print media to explore notions of hybridity and rootedness. Probing personal and collective expressions of Quebec and North African identity, she creates images that combine domestic objects, cultural icons, uprooted figures and landscape elements. Combining meticulously crafted surfaces and crudely cut forms, she translates and transforms the most compelling elements of her cultural baggage in a highly personal way.
Photo : Mike Evariste
Credits : Laïla Mestari, Le retour des légendes, 2024, © Laïla Mestari. Photo: courtesy of Patel Brown
About Lorna Bauer
…air is where effort goes…once our effort is spent…this crowded air… No.11, 2021, blown glass, steel, 68.3 x 40.5 x 40.5 cm
In her practice, Lorna Bauer uses photography and sculpture to examine the relationship between human beings and their environment. Generally perceived as linked to the site that hosts them, her artistic research projects lead to works that are in response to a specific context, showing a quasi-intuitive materialization of ideas and experiences generated by lived environments.
Photo : John Paul Photography
Credits : Lorna Bauer, …air is where effort goes…once our effort is spent…this crowded air… No.11, 2021, © Lorna Bauer. Photo: courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nicolas Robert
The Art of Giving
The MAC is committed to supporting artists, and in order to do so, it needs your help. By contributing to the The Art of Revealing campaign, you are directly contributing to the enrichment of the national collection, notably through acquisitions such as those made at the Plural Art Fair. Your donations also strengthen our impact on the cultural scene. Your support is essential.
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