
Alexia Laferté-Coutu and Jessica Williams
For artists Alexia Laferté-Coutu and Jessica Williams, the city is a medium. At Projet Pangée, Williams’s bright, dissonant oil paintings surround Laferté-Coutu’s relic-like glass sculptures, which are laid out on a table at the center of the gallery. These hypnotic and weighty objects could be the rubble of a crystalline statue, but they were made from clay impressions of Montreal’s monuments, cited in each of their titles: Statue de la Victoria, 2018, for example. Collectively, they craft an intimate portrait of the Québécois city as a still and rigid landscape.
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