Massimo Guerrera
Une installation au ralenti
Une installation au ralenti is a project initiated by Massimo Guerrera at the Joyce Yahouda Gallery. For five weeks, Massimo Guerrera will fill the gallery space to create a personal place where studio and exhibition space meet. The artist moves the boundaries of the exhibit to transform it into a living space that he will occupy over its duration, depending on his interventions.
Une installation au ralenti presents an amalgamation of an exhibition’s steps, which usually remain separate: the installation time, opening and presentation to the public combine to offer an unprecedented experience of artistic creation. The length of the exhibit time therefore slackens and is fed by a range of actions, meetings and contemplations.
Massimo Guerrera will be present from Wednesday to Friday to share and accompany this slowed installation during the attentive unpacking of the works. A succession of unexpected postures, subtle performances and meetings with visitors will put forward a new dimension of the work.
Born from the La réunion des pratiques cycle, Une installation au ralenti continues Massimo Guerrera’s intimate approach that questions our relationships to others by creating moments of transmission and exchange between the artist and visitors.
Text by the artist
It was during a residency-exhibit at L’Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (L’oeuvre de l’autre Gallery) in the fall of 2010 that this idea and thought arose. He was sitting on the ground, unwrapping a sculpture series during the set-up of the La réunion des pratiques exhibit.
What happens if we move the usual rhythms and postures within this particular moment often imbued with enthusiasm, creative choices, unrest and tension?
And then, in what way is the installation, as well as our self, affected by the presence of unexpected visitors, friends and members of the gallery who come in or work in this sensitive space?
From this initial intuition surged an intention, an idea. What would happen in our minds and in this living space if the entire exhibit time were simply a slowed assembly fed by a set of actions, meetings and contemplations?
This is the experience and meditation that I propose for you to share and accompany over the course of this decelerated installation. To do so, I would be present at the gallery between three and four days a week to activate this attentive unpacking through a series of subtle perfomative actions, unexpected postures, as well as a series of meetings with interested parties. Meetings can be reserved for one to three people, for a period of 60 to 90 minutes.
It is therefore with great joy that I invite you, as well as the gallery team, to come and see us and stroll through as curious or stealth visitors, as attentive onlookers or open participants.
We shall cross paths or spend some time together to meditate, mutually inspire each other, meander around the installation, unpack the works and commit certain creative acts.
In this way, we will slow down the pace of our perception and creation processes. We can engage with the nature of our mind and might see the deep patterns of why we do all of this more clearly.
Massimo Guerrera
Translated by Caitlin Stall-Paquet
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Meetings
Meetings with Massimo Guerrera , from Wednesday to Friday
Meetings can be reserved for one to three people, for a period of 60 to 90 minutes.
Book you reservation at the Gallery or by phone at 514 875 2323
A succession of unexpected postures, subtle performances and meetings with visitors will put forward a new dimension of the work.
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