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Between Witness and Fabulation: Joseph Tisiga and Merray Gerges in conversation

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Momus Talks presents artist Joseph Tisiga and critic Merray Gerges in conversation. 

Joseph Tisiga’s work is informed by global histories of colonial violence and witnessing the ongoing dispossession of Indigenous peoples. He begins with fact, then cocoons it with fiction. Doubles dance, surfaces deceive. He cloaks archeological and totemic forms in connotations and allusions, creating a pictorial and psychic plane in which mythologies morph. 

The worlds he creates provoke these questions: What is fabulation’s role in the face of colonial violence? Could fabulation become a tool in the production of a new political reality? And could it liberate marginalized artists from the moral imperative to bear witness?

This conversation will be situated within Tisaga’s current solo exhibition “It was God the whole time,” on view at Bradley Ertaskiran in Montreal. Gerges and Tisiga have been in ongoing dialogue for over a decade, since meeting at Nova Scotia College of Art & Design. 

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Merray Gerges is an Egyptian essayist, editor, and writing teacher based in New York. Since her MFA in narrative nonfiction at New York University, she has been working on a series of longform essays about family inheritance through self and body. She is Associate Editor at Momus. 

Joseph Tisiga is a multidisciplinary artist based in Montreal and a member of the Kaska Dena First Nation. He maintains a multidisciplinary practice that is rooted in painting and drawing, but also draws from performance, photography, sculpture, and installation. Solo exhibitions of his work have been held at Musée d’art de Joliette; Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University; Audain Art Museum (Whistler); and Bradley Ertaskiran (Montreal). Tisiga is the recipient of The Yukon Art Prize (2021), the Sobey Art Award (2020), and the REVEAL Indigenous Art Award (2017).

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To RSVP, please click here (spaces limited).  

This event is hosted by Bradley Ertaskiran and is part of Momus Talks.

When: March 2, 2024

Time: 2 to 3pm 

Where: Bradley Ertaskiran, 3550 Rue Saint-Antoine O., Montreal

Accessibility: The bunker is only accessible by stairs; chairs will be provided, alongside standing room.

Azza El Siddique, recipient of the Creative Capital award

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January 26, 2024

Azza El Siddique is among a cohort of 54 recipients of the 2024 “Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact” award in visual arts by Creative Capital. Totalling $2.5 million in grants, the “Wild Futures” prize is awarded on the basis of innovative new approaches to visual arts, and provides each individual artist with unrestricted project funding up to $50,000.

Click here to learn more about the “Wild Futures” award.

Click here to consult Azza El Siddique’s profile.

Jeremy Shaw represented by Bradley Ertaskiran

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November 24, 2023

Bradley Ertaskiran is delighted to announce the representation of Jeremy Shaw. The artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery will take place in fall 2024.

Jeremy Shaw works in a variety of media to explore altered states and the cultural and scientific practices that aspire to map transcendental experience. Often combining and amplifying strategies of verité filmmaking, conceptual art, music video and scientific research, he creates a post-documentary space that complicates expectations of image as a form of testimony. Shaw has had solo exhibitions at Centre Pompidou, Paris, MoMA PS1, New York, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, and MOCA Toronto, and been featured in international surveys such as the 57th Venice Biennale, 16th Lyon Biennale and Manifesta 11, Zurich. In 2016 he was awarded the Sobey Art Award and in 2018 was artist-in-residence at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Works by Shaw are held in public collections worldwide including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Tate Modern, London, and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.

The Musée d’art contemporain of Montreal will present Phase Shifting Index, a major work by the artist, starting December 12, 2023 at the Fonderie Darling.

Click here to consult the artist’s profile.

Photo: Alex De Brabant, 2023

Azza El Siddique featured in Art Basel Stories

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November 13, 2023

Featured in Art Basel Stories: an exploration of Azza El Siddique’s practice, as well as her upcoming installation at Art Basel Miami Beach.

“Memory – a kind of time travel – also plays a role in El Siddique’s installation Final Fantasy (2023), to be presented by Montreal-based gallery Bradley Ertaskiran in Art Basel Miami Beach’s Positions sector (the fair debut for both artist and gallery). Like her previous installations, the structure resembles a sacred space like a pyramid or temple, but also evokes the feeling of, say, a laboratory. ‘The installation reflects my younger years, when I played role-playing PlayStation games with my late brother,’ El Siddique explains. ‘These games feature narratives that remain relevant in our contemporary world: overconsumption, corporate greed, exploitation of natural resources, religious extremism, oppressive governments, natural disasters, pandemics, and so on.’”

Jareh Das

To read the full article, click here.

To consult Azza El Siddique’s profile, click here.

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