Image courtesy La Biennale de Montreal.
Le Grand Balcon, the 2016 edition of La Biennale de Montréal, will be on view to the public from October 19, 2016 to January 15, 2017.
Le Grand Balcon calls for a materialist and sensualist approach. It gives centre stage to the pursuit of sensual pleasures, making a case for its decisive role in everyday life and political decision-making. The project bets on the liberatory potential of art and invites us to rethink both the (im)possibility of an emancipation through pleasure—and its urgency. It summons us to use both the brain and the body’s capacities to their fullest to affirm the pleasure we must take—a hedonistic politics—far from the easy rewards of consumption and the indifference of (mere) knowledge.
Le Grand Balcon was conceptualized and curated by Philippe Pirotte in dialogue with curatorial advisors Corey McCorkle, Aseman Sabet and Kitty Scott and in collaboration with Sylvie Fortin, Executive and Artistic Director of La Biennale de Montréal.
Le Grand Balcon is presented by La Biennale de Montréal and co-produced with the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MAC), in collaboration with other local partners and venues.
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