PHI Foundation
465 Saint-Jean Street
Education Room (SS01)
March 16—May 22, 2022
Wednesday to Friday: 12 PM—7 PM
Saturday and Sunday: 11 AM—6 PM
Free admission No reservations required
Public Engagement Project
Nesting is a public engagement project developed by Marlon Kroll in conjunction with the exhibition Stan Douglas: Revealing Narratives.
Inspired by the ways in which our bodies hold memories, Nesting is an installation conceived to be experienced from two points of view. Inside the Education room, visitors will encounter an architectural intervention covered in an impenetrable flesh-like membrane, whose insides, like a body, cannot be seen from the exhibition space. Outside, from the vantage point of the street, looking in through two of the Education room’s windows, Nesting shows itself in a different light, revealing a situation that emanates from the interior of the installation.
Through this project, Kroll also reflects on notions of transformation and the materiality of being, and the ways in which architecture limits access, either by creating a singular point of view or by imposing physical limitations on space.
Marlon Kroll
Marlon Kroll is a German/Canadian artist living and working in Montréal. He holds a BFA in Ceramics from Concordia University and is one of nine laureates of the Darling Foundry’s 2019-2022 Montréal Studio Program. He was the 2020 recipient of the William and Meredith Saunderson Prize for Emerging Artists.
Recent exhibitions include Stress Tested, Public Gallery, London; A Chronique Fear, Marvin Gardens, New York, 2021; Rifts, hovels, a sighing tide, Afternoon Projects, Vancouver, 2021; La machine qui enseignait des airs aux oiseaux, Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal, 2020; At the centre of my ironic faith, Cassandra Cassandra, Toronto, 2020; Red Sky at Morning, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, New York, 2019; Thirsty Things, Clint Roenisch, Toronto, 2019.
The PHI Foundation will present the Canadian premiere of Douglas’s series Penn Station’s Half Century, and for the first time in Québec, the Disco Angola series
The PHI Foundation will present the Canadian premiere of Douglas’s series Penn Station’s Half Century, and for the first time in Québec, the Disco Angola series
Free
The PHI Centre building comes to life with an interactive multimedia installation of a motion-activated river on its four-story windows on Saint-Pierre Street
Collaboration
The PHI Foundation, in collaboration with Onishka Productions and the Centre du Théâtre d'Aujourd'hui (CTD’A), presents the sound walk Marguerite: la pierre
Free
An experimental documentary in three parts, by Nicolas Jenkins, that aims to question the prevailing assimilation of 2SLGBTQIA+ identities
Two immersive Renaissance tableaux for our hyper-mediated digital era, these artworks by Marco Brambilla will engulf you in landscapes of pop-culture iconography
A special selection of award-winning VR works that will draw you into four distinct worlds sharing unique and powerful stories
Free
In celebration of its 15th anniversary, the PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art is pleased to present an exhibition by Yayoi Kusama
Free
bleu de lieu is a participatory installation that invites the public to stay, to rest, to meditate and to interact with the different elements found in our Education Room
As part of the Papier 2022 Art Fair programming, the PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art presents the panel discussion Making Contradictions Visible: Artistic Practices in the Public Sphere