Wednesday December 10th, 2025 at 6 pm.
Take advantage of extended opening hours to discover the exhibition I am here. Irene F. Whittome in the company of the Foundation team. In a convivial atmosphere, we will serve tea and discuss the works on display.
The title of this exhibition, like a performative statement, asserts itself as an authoritative proclamation. It simultaneously designates a presence, a place, and a moment: the here-and-now where Irene F. Whittome finds herself. But the series of images that also bears this title, showing the artist’s diminutive silhouette in the center of a former quarry now overgrown in lush vegetation, complicates this assertion. “I am here” thus becomes a paradoxical declaration, in which the artist is both anchored and almost erased in the immensity of the landscape. Since 2014, Whittome has permanently settled in this abandoned quarry in Ogden, leaving Montreal, its bustling atmosphere, and its cultural milieu. She retreated into this underworld to live closer to nature and in solitude, essential conditions for her freedom and the renewal of her artistic practice. This aspiration drives Whittome’s exhibition: to be here, in nature, fully occupying the present moment. It is both poetic stance and radical gesture — a way of inhabiting the world by observing it, translating it, sculpting it, gently, consistently.
Free, no reservation required.
