Focus: The Body in Question(s)

Le corps en question(s)/The Body in Question(s) combines exhibition, choreographic creation, spatial and sound architecture, and an interactive digital platform to explore how the profound social, cultural and technological mutations of modern society affect the way we conceptualize and read the body.

Isabelle Van Grimde creates an organic space that she invites us to inhabit rather than pass through. She places the living body in dialogue with its genome, its digital transposition, its virtual image and its dreamlike dimension. She places the primitive body in tension with the body of the future, questioning the place reserved for the physical body in an increasingly virtual world, and the impact of computers on our mental and physical processes. And the questions are made all the more disturbing by the fact that a digital platform allows viewers to discover the creative process live behind the scenes, and to recreate the work itself on the Internet. 

From room to room, we discover the creations of nine visual and media artists, the essays of several scientists and the subtle movements of seven dancers aged from 23 to 60. Video installations relay their performances in the rooms where they are not, maintaining a choreographic presence in the exhibition at all times. An intriguing work that defies notions of space and time, embracing the viewer's body and reinventing itself in part thanks to it. An intimate experience, the duration and content of which are entirely up to the viewer. Intelligent, sensitive, monumental.

Curator, artistic director and choreographer: Isabelle Van Grimde

Spatial architecture: Éric O. Lacroix

Performers: Marie Brassard, Sophie Breton, Marie-Ève Lafontaine, Robin Poitras, Georges-Nicolas Tremblay, Brian Webb

Visual artists: Derek Besant, Brennan/Caulfied/Mills, Kate Craig, Foumalade, Anick La Bissonnière, Éric O. Lacroix, Nadia Myre, Marilène Olivier, Monique Régimbald-Zeiber