Laurence Pilon
A Scape Unnamed
This exhibition is presented as part of MOMENTA 2021 satellite programming.
September 11 to October 16th, 2021
A Scape Unnamed is Laurence Pilon's second solo exhibition at the gallery. Stemming from the artist's continuous intention to disturb our anthropocentric gaze onto nature, this project probes through painting the pictorial potentiality of a non-human pareidolia. From this speculative perspective, the paintings presented offer a view of compressed assemblages that evoke a buried ecology and propose a geological visibility. Recalling the biomorphic appearances of the paintings, strange silhouettes rest on the floor of the gallery, as if we had been given the chance to contemplate, upside-down the threshold of the ground, unidentifiable fossilized species.
Laurence Pilon is a Canadian painter based in Tiohtià:ke-Mooniyang-Montreal. They hold an MFA in Studio Arts from the University of Guelph (2021) and a BFA from Concordia University (2015). Their most recent solo exhibitions include Holo (géo) bionte (Galerie Nicolas Robert, 2020), It Once Was a Garden (Galerie McClure, 2018), and their work can be found in the collections of the Royal Bank of Canada and Medcan.
