Free admission
Ages 8 and up
Saturday, December 6
In French (sold out)
Doors: 9:45 AM
Event: 10 AM to 12 PM
In English
Doors: 1:15 PM
Event: 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM
Sunday, December 7
In French (sold out)
Doors: 9:45 AM
Event: 10 AM to 12 PM
In English (sold out)
Doors: 1:15 PM
Event: 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM
407 Saint-Pierre Street
Education Room, second floor
Montreal, Quebec, H2Y 2M3
A creative workshop for families offered alongside the exhibition swell of spæc(i)es by Josèfa Ntjam
Families are invited to participate in the free of charge creative workshop Melting Messages: Between Matter, Perception, and Disappearance, designed and facilitated by Montréal-based artist Miri Chek.
Participants will have the opportunity to meet artist Miri Chek, who will facilitate the workshop for this special occasion in PHI's Education Room.
Melting Messages: Between Matter, Perception, and Disappearance is a sensory workshop for creative exploration using different coloured bioplastics on transparent bioplastic surfaces. Each participant will create an image or message that is destined to disappear: melting in heat or dissolving in water. Each creative gesture, performed on the artist's mobile kitchen, will be filmed live and projected onto the wall, offering an immersive and lively video feedback. This workshop offers a poetic and playful reflection on image, matter, and their ephemerality in a world saturated with matter and representations.
This workshop is designed and presented in partnership with MOMENTA Creative, in connection with swell of spæc(i)es by Josèfa Ntjam, presented at PHI from September 10, 2025, to January 11, 2026.
Miri Chek is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose practice explores the intersection of film and installation art. Born in Armenia, she grew up in Jerusalem before immigrating to Montréal in 2013. She currently divides her time and work between Armenia and the unceded Indigenous lands of Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, QC.
With a degree in philosophy and an MFA in visual arts, Maria presented her video installation Être avec at PHI and at the Venice Biennale in 2019. Her biodegradable sculptures have also been exhibited internationally, notably at the Hors Pistes festival at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2021.
Since 2019, she has collaborated with director Édith Jorisch on joint projects, including Plastisapiens (Tribeca, IDFA, NewImages). Together, they are currently developing Fruit Opéra. Maria also directed her first documentary, Fresh Air Exhaustion, filmed in Armenia in 2025.
Photos: Charlie Bouthillette
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