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Safe Light (la lampe inactinique)<\/em>, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luminous element on the building fa\u00e7ade<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Guido Molinari Foundation is located in the former Banque d’\u00c9pargne de la Cit\u00e9 et du District de Montr\u00e9al building, constructed in 1927-1928. At the time of its construction, this section of Sainte-Catherine Street East was used for both commercial and residential purposes. The bank’s mission was to encourage savings among the neighborhood’s less fortunate, targeting French-Canadian working-class families, most of whom had many children. On the fa\u00e7ade of the building, the Bank’s logo is carved in stone. Reproducing a beehive, it was intended as a reminder of the virtue of work. Over time, the fa\u00e7ade has lost some of its ornamental details, notably the clock set in grey stone above the lintel of the main entrance door. However, a small beehive carved into the stone is still visible, a symbol that reminds us of the site’s past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of her residency in winter 2024, artist Fiona Annis designed a luminous work for the fa\u00e7ade of the building, integrated into the oculus formerly occupied by the clock. She inlaid this circular niche with a delicate amber light, in reference to the inactinic lamp used to develop photographs in the darkroom. Practitioners of darkroom photography call this type of bulb a “safe light”, since it allows safe handling of photosensitive paper during darkroom development. With this unobtrusive intervention, the artist is showing her kindness to visitors to the Foundation, neighbours, local residents and all those passers-by who, at dusk, work in a wide variety of occupations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Safe Light (la lampe inactinique), 2024 Luminous element on the building fa\u00e7ade The Guido Molinari Foundation is located in the former Banque d’\u00c9pargne de la Cit\u00e9 et du District de Montr\u00e9al building, constructed in 1927-1928. At the time of its construction, this section of Sainte-Catherine Street East was used for both commercial and residential purposes. … <\/p>\n

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