à condition: Sophia Belkin & Mégane Voghell

at Calaboose

January 10 – February 24, 2019
2731A Saint-Charles,
Montréal, Qc.

Sophia Belkin, pond (detail), 2019, resin, dimensions variable.

Décembre se termine enfin. Je traîne mes pieds dans la slush sur le pont, le bout de mes oreilles rougit et brûle. Je rencontre mon image, difficile à reconnaître sur la limite troublée de la surface dépolie de l’étang. Je me sens émue de chercher une vue plus claire.


Kneeling at its shore, I address the pond directly:
how do you maintain grace under these precarious conditions to which you are so vulnerable, external forces that dictate how you feel and are felt?


Succumbing to a naive impulse,
(or, more honestly, an unresolved desire to be dominated)
I plant my senseless fingertips against the surface, transferring their prints in an arrogant sacrifice.


L’étang me répond:
Parfois, je me sens comme moyen de conservation, et autrefois, de conversation. Dans ma transparence réside mon offre de perspectives.
À condition de temps, ma surface gelée libère des occasions d’assemblages1.
Ce sont simplement les stipulations de mon existence, même si je me sens souvent fatiguée.


Precisely then, a sobering gust of air struck, ushering me towards the trail. I head back to the
building where I often grow fearful2. Jusqu’à la prochaine fois, je serai préoccupé par les autres
griefs et connaissances qu’il retient.


Danica Pinteric, January 2019

1 Adapted from Mégane Voghell’s studio notes, 2018
2 ibid.

Sophia Belkin & Mégane Voghell, à condition, 2019, Exhibition view, Calaboose, Montréal.
Sophia Belkin & Mégane Voghell, pond, 2019, resin, textile, embroidery, pastel, oil, wood crayon, paper frozen in ice, 4’ x 8’
Sophia Belkin & Mégane Voghell, pond (detail), 2019, resin, textile, embroidery, pastel, oil, wood crayon, paper frozen in ice, 4’ x 8’
Sophia Belkin, pond (detail), 2019, resin frozen in ice, dimensions variable.
Sophia Belkin & Mégane Voghell, pond (detail), 2019, resin, textile, embroidery, pastel, oil, wood crayon, paper frozen in ice, 4’ x 8’
Mégane Voghell, Éclat dans l’oeil, 2018, pastels gras et secs sur papier, frozen in ice, 11” x 14”
Sophia Belkin, pond (detail), 2019, resin, textile, embroidery frozen in ice, dimensions variable
Sophia Belkin, pond (detail), 2019, textile, embroidery frozen in ice, dimensions variable
Sophia Belkin, pond (detail), 2019, resin frozen in ice, dimensions variable.
Sophia Belkin, pond (detail), 2019, resin frozen in ice, dimensions variable.
Mégane Voghell, Ennemi II, 2018, crayon de bois et pastel sec sur papier, frozen in ice, 5” x 7”
Mégane Voghell, Ennemi I, 2018, pastel gras et huile sur papier, frozen in ice, 5” x 7”
Sophia Belkin, pond (detail), 2019, resin, textile frozen in ice, dimensions variable.
Sophia Belkin, pond (detail), 2019, textile, embroidery frozen in ice, dimensions variable.
Sophia Belkin, pond (detail), 2019, resin, magnet, dimensions variable.
Mégane Voghell, Rencontre sous la lune, 2018, pastel gras et sec et graphite sur masonite, 12” x 16”
Sophia Belkin & Mégane Voghell, à condition, 2019, Exhibition view, Calaboose, Montréal.
Sophia Belkin, Elixir, 2018, embroidery, chiffon, linen, resin, 14” x 24”
Sophia Belkin, Elixir, 2018, embroidery, chiffon, linen, resin, 14” x 24”
Sophia Belkin, Elixir, 2018, embroidery, chiffon, linen, resin, 14” x 24”
Mégane Voghell, Naissance aveugle (pierre tombale), 2019, pastels gras, sec, huile, cire sur papier, glace, 18.5” x 22”
Sophia Belkin & Mégane Voghell, à condition, 2019, Exhibition view, Calaboose, Montréal.
Sophia Belkin, Marsh Annex, 2019, projected video, wood, resin, textile, embroidery, found objects, dimensions variable.
Sophia Belkin, Marsh Annex (detail), 2019, projected video, wood, resin, textile, embroidery, found objects, dimensions variable.
Sophia Belkin, Marsh Annex (detail), 2019, projected video, wood, resin, textile, embroidery, found objects, dimensions variable.
Sophia Belkin, Marsh Annex (detail), 2019, projected video, wood, resin, textile, embroidery, found objects, dimensions variable.
Sophia Belkin, Marsh Annex (detail), 2019, projected video, wood, resin, textile, embroidery, found objects, dimensions variable.
Sophia Belkin, Marsh Annex (detail), 2019, projected video, wood, resin, textile, embroidery, found objects, dimensions variable.

à condition:
Sophia Belkin & Mégane Voghell

 

at Calaboose, Montréal, Qc.
January 10 – February 24, 2019

 

Calaboose

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