Thursday April 3rd, 6pm.
For this public discussion in collaboration with the Italian Institue of Culture in Montreal, our artists in residency welcome artist Luca Spano a fascinating discussion at the intersection of art and science. At the heart of this dialogue lies an essential question: what is an image? What has colour to do with it? Without denying Western oculocentrism, the artists will explore anthropological and ethnographic perspectives on vision. They will question the notion of colour and its multiple meanings – cultural, emotional and symbolic. The multidisciplinary approach of the Dufresne-Laganière duo, like that of Spano, will enable us to rethink our relationship with images and the way they influence our understanding of the world.
Free, no reservation required.
Luca Spano (Italy) holds a degree in Communication Science from Sapienza University in Rome, an MA in photography from London College of Communication in London and an MFA in Visual Arts from Cornell University in Ithaca, US.
His work has been exhibited in museums, galleries and festivals such as La Triennale di Milano (IT), MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (IT), Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, Luis Adelantado Gallery, (ES), Caelum Gallery, New York, Institute of Italian Culture of Paris, MAN Museum (IT) and Bigaignon Gallery in Paris.
He has been artist in residence at the Fundacion Botin (ES), Künstlerische Tatsachen (DE), Kultur einer Digitalstadt (DE), Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (IT), Deutsches Optisches Museum (DE), DIST Politecnico di Torino (IT) and visiting artist at Arts Letters and Numbers Residency (US). His work has received awards and grants such as The MEAD Fellowship (UK), The John Hartell Award (US), the Strategia Fotografia grant in 2022 and 2024 from the Italian Ministry of Culture (IT).
He is currently full professor of photography at the Academy of Fine Arts of Sassari (IT), and professor of Digital Cultures and Aesthetics of New Media at the European Institute of Design (IT).
Jean-Maxime Dufresne and Virginie Laganière have been collaborating for some twenty years to explore the transformations of our natural, constructed, psychic and technological territories. Anthropological in nature, their artistic work seeks to reveal plural narratives by bringing together documentary, fiction and speculation. Guided by field research and conceptual thinking, they carry out investigations during residencies, often in collaboration with stakeholders from a variety of backgrounds. Their artistic output takes the form of protean installations, in which photographic images, video, sound and sculptural elements are used to explore their experiential and critical dimensions.
