Qu'est-ce qu'on peut construire sur un sol en mouvance

Qu’est-ce qu’on peut construire sur un sol en mouvance interweaves several stories traversed by the same history: a shift of the commons, a change from intimate knowledge to a profit-driven rationale. It all begins with a century-old ceramic jar for beans, given to the artist by her grandmother, which elicits memories of shared cooking, a communal oven, an economical and cooperative act. At the same time, Anouk Verviers also explores a second archive about the transformation of butter production in Canada, which changed from a domestic, female skill to an export-based, male industry. These two contrary movements reveal the same shift.

The exhibition delves into these stories and the ideas about land, heritage, and dispossession that they evoke. By traversing layers of history, gestures, and voices, Verviers probes the cracks of a divisive economic system to reinvent forms of “living together.” In order to create a dialogue between them, she uses the actions of churning to make mud bricks, adding fragments of thoughts to them. In the gallery, a reconstructed fragment of the Canadian pavilion at the 1886 Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London holds four videos representing different attempts at creating a dialogue between the personal and the political and perhaps rediscovering the meaning of working together.

In order to better serve you, DRAC will now be offering three specific workshops for each exhibition: 1- Clay modeling 2- Performance *New 3- Stop-motion animation

These workshops are developed for various audiences, including school groups, day camps, community organizations, libraries, and seniors’ residences.