INSTALLATION

The PHI Foundation is pleased to present Spaces of Resonance, a public engagement project by artist My-Van Dam. The project will take place in the Foundation’s Education Room between November 6, 2024 and March 9, 2025, in parallel with the exhibition Laure Prouvost: Oma-je.

In her practice, My-Van Dam constantly navigates between different disciplines ranging from performance to sculpture, installation, video art, and drawing. Much like Laure Prouvost’s multidisciplinary work, Dam’s approach is based on the fluidity and malleability of techniques, and is marked by a unique sensitivity to the body. While the body is present in her videos and performances, it surpasses the limits of the image to become the work’s primary site: a place to invest in and explore beyond the obvious—a space where ideas, feelings, emotions, and traumas may settle and resonate.

Dam’s public engagement project is open to visitors at different times. From Tuesday to Friday, elementary, high school, CEGEP, university, and community groups visiting the PHI Foundation with a member of the Education team can take part in a creative workshop that invites them to convey bodily experiences by handling and assembling various sculptural materials. This activity will be open to the general public on weekends. The objects created during these workshops will remain in the Education Room along with Dam’s own Objects of Solidarity, and will be revitalized during public performance workshops given by the artist and guest performers. The project will conclude in March 2025 with a performance that will bring together Dam’s research and the objects that resulted from these activities.

Curator: Daniel Fiset