July 25- September 2, 2023

Céline Huyghebaert

Atelier-Galerie A. Piroir

In Person Viewing:

5333, avenue Casgrain, suite 802, 8ème étage
Montréal, Québec, Canada, H2T 1X3

Online Viewing:

https://www.piroir.com/exposition-5-en/#celine-huyghebaert-biectr-2023-en

Opening Night: July 27, 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

Céline Huyghebaert presents the first explorations of a visual and textual project around the word “nothing/rien.” In English. Because the indefinite pronoun nothing is unaccompanied by a negating adverb, we can amuse ourselves indefinitely constructing ambivalent sentences like these: Nothing is manifest. Nothing exists. Nothing can disappear. The word conjures up something more tangible than evanescent. Is nothing a present or an absence? And if it is an absence, can we miss it? What is its nature? Its shape? That of an empty impression, of a crack, of a hole? Is there really nothing in the hole? To explore these questions, the artist collaborated with the A. Piroir Studio-Gallery for a creative residency. The works created use text and photographic images, engraving and embossing to try to give a shape to nothing.

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