Vivre Ensemble

Vivre Ensemble is a visual art exhibition that I curated in 2016 as part of the World Social Forum in Montreal. It brought together the vision of ten artists from diverse backgrounds who were living in Montreal, and who create using various medium (painting, photography, drawing, sculpture, writing). We all took up the challenge to reflect on the main theme of the Forum: Another World is Needed. Together it is Possible.

The project became one that asked the artists and visitors this more detailed and challenging question: Are we ready to transgress our fears, destroy the walls that separate us, reinvent our relationships, build trust in ourselves and between us, and speak a language that brings our cultures closer?

This exhibition was born from a citizen initiative by Soumya Tamouro and Sadia Groguhé, and was part of a larger programme: A vernissage opened with my curator talk ‘The Illusion of Borders’, a meet-the-artists session, a panel discussion moderated by the journalist and writer Mélanie Loisel (writer of the extraordinary book, Ils Ont Veçu Le Siècle), and a music concert. 

Participant artists: Joseph André, Cham Chahda, Edwidge De Mota, Veronica Dragnef, Narcisse Esfahani, Gabriel Landry, Suraj Sadan, Mikhail Smirnov, and RoSo.