Furnished: Marianne Corless "Further" at La Centrale.

"Our land is everything to us... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that our grandfathers paid for it - with their lives."
John Wooden Legs, Cheyenne





Ok,

you got until Sunday the 20th to visit yet another of the best Montreal exhibits
since 2005.


Remember how I said recently that BGL stole Marianne Corless's show
at Mercer Union (Toronto)?


Well, the girl took her revenge.

The Centrale gallery show is a total art experience, including tactile environment. A must-see.


I thought colonization was a tired and cliché topic of canadian art, but trust me this doesn't detain at all on Corless's work.

Maybe because she went just that extra limit where other artists wouldn't go,
working with materials that would give an heart attack to Brigitte Bardot.


If you're too sensitive, please evitate this show, but you're missing on a lot
of skiils.


Maybe I'll come back to it, but otherwise it's pretty self-explicative.

Just remember that europeans transmitted variola to native americans, through the trade of contaminated tissues, and that part will help you understand the rest, including how far (indeed, how "further") she links back the responsibility, in the meantime reversing back the process of colonization.

Can culture be contaminative ?


Cheers,


Cedric Caspesyan
centiment@hotmail.com


Marianne Corless "Further"
January 14 to February 20 2005
La Centrale
4296 Saint-Laurent Boulevard
Wednesday: noon - 18h
Thursday, Friday: noon - 21h
Saturday, Sunday: noon - 17h