Freehand Absence is a performance by Helena Martin Franco which was initially broadcast live on the PHI Foundation’s website on April 6, 2021, as part of our public engagement project Incandescences. This performance reintegrates some materials used in the artist’s initial exploration in the Foundation’s archives, such as charcoal, cardboard and masking tape. These materials are associated with reflections on the traces of coloniality found within contemporary institutions, and on dynamics between the centre and the periphery. By thinking of the frame of the video and her own body as contours to retrace (and to redefine), Freehand Absence makes public the artist’s research by allowing it to step out of its initial setting.
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Gathering over forty recent works, DHC/ART’s inaugural exhibition by conceptual artist Marc Quinn is the largest ever mounted in North America and the artist’s first solo show in Canada
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Six artists present works that in some way critically re-stage films, media spectacles, popular culture and, in one case, private moments of daily life
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This poetic and often touching project speaks to us all about our relation to the loved one
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DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art is pleased to present the North American premiere of Christian Marclay’s Replay, a major exhibition gathering works in video by the internationally acclaimed artist
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DHC/ART is pleased to present Particles of Reality, the first solo exhibition in Canada of the celebrated Israeli artist Michal Rovner, who divides her time between New York City and a farm in Israel
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The inaugural DHC Session exhibition, Living Time, brings together selected documentation of renowned Taiwanese-American performance artist Tehching Hsieh’s One Year Performances and the films of young Dutch artist, Guido van der Werve
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Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s film installations experiment with narrative storytelling, creating extraordinary tales out of ordinary human experiences
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For more than thirty years, Jenny Holzer’s work has paired text and installation to examine personal and social realities
