Exhibition catalog Dominique Blain : Displacements (Bilingual catalog)

In the face of major political crises, wars, repression of freedom, vandalism, natural disasters, what do works of art mean to us? What are we willing to do to protect a masterpiece? These questions are at the heart of the exhibition Displacements by Canadian artist Dominique Blain.

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In the face of major political crises, wars, repression of freedom, vandalism, natural disasters, what do works of art mean to us? What are we willing to do to protect a masterpiece? These questions are at the heart of Canadian artist Dominique Blain's exhibition Déplacements.

Around an imposing central installation, Monuments II, Déplacements brings together video works, a luminous glass sculpture, and photographs linking the fate of endangered works of art with that of humanity. Conceived and produced by the Canadian Cultural Centre in 2019 for its gallery in Paris, the exhibition was subsequently presented at the Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré in Tours in 2020. The Château de Chambord gives it a whole new dimension here because the artist's works, always inspired by archives, take place in the very place that housed the masterpieces of many French collections, in particular those of the Louvre, during the Second World War. The exhibition thus dialogues with Chambord 1939-1945, "Saving a Little of the World's Beauty," the monument's new permanent galleries that visitors can discover on the terraces.

Dominique Blain's works are presented today because they raise issues that are still relevant today, those of the destruction of the world's heritage, while at the same time confronting us with the importance of the duty of memory for the projection of our future humanity. Through her work, the artist also raises to the status of universal works the old documentary photographs of her fellow photographers.

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Dominique Blain lives and works in Montreal. She has exhibited in several North American and European cities as well as in Australia (Sydney Biennale in 1992). Three major retrospective exhibitions have been devoted to her: at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal in 2004 (circulated at the Mackensie Art Gallery in Regina and the Nickle Art Gallery in Calgary), at the Musée national des Beaux-Arts de Québec in 1998 (circulated at the Ansel Adams Center in San Francisco and at Sala 1 in Rome) and in 1997 and 1998, the Arnolfini Centre for Contemporary Art in Bristol organized an exhibition of her work in five institutions in the United Kingdom: Belfast, London, Edinburgh, Newcastle and Cambridge. In addition to her participation in numerous exhibitions in Quebec (Les Cents jours d'art contemporain, Galerie de l'Université du Québec à Montréal, Galerie de l'Université de Sherbrooke, Musée régional de Rimouski, Musée d'art de Joliette), numerous public commissions, and two exhibitions presented at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, in 1984 and again in 2019, Dominique Blain has also had works presented in numerous museums outside of Canada including: Portland Museum of Art, Contemporary arts Museum Houston, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Kunstverein in Frankfurt, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Louisiana Museum in Copenhagen, Museum of Europe in Brussels, Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester and CCCOD in Tours.

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Catalog of the exhibition published by Éditions Skira Paris for the presentation of the exhibition at the Canadian Cultural Centre, a bilingual French-English catalog of 128 pages is on sale at the Château's boutique for 30€. With texts by Ami Barak (curator of the exhibition at the Canadian Cultural Centre), Catherine Bédard (art historian and curator of the Chambord exhibition), Louise Déry (Ph.D. in art history), France Trinque (Ph.D. in art history) and Gérard Wajcman (writer and psychoanalyst).