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MONTREAL, Nov. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Space for Life is pleased to announce the opening of two new exhibitions at Biosphere starting November 25. Weaving the Ocean: In Ari Bayuaji’s Studio invites you to the center of a world never seen before. Installation View. Meanwhile, Zer0. The Arts at the Heart of Ecological Transformation presents an exhibition of the organization whose aim is to use art to raise awareness about eco-responsible changes. The Biosphere also launches Family Saturdays to introduce the museum’s activities to young people between the ages of 6 and 12. from another angle. Visitors will have access to activities where science, art and citizen participation are combined in an exclusive way.
Weaving the Ocean: In Ari Bayuaji’s Workshop
Weaving the Ocean is a project started by artist Ari Bayuaji in 2020 in Bali, when borders were closed due to COVID-19. Seeing the economic impact of the closure of tourism and the environmental pollutants that destroy beaches, he set out to recover the plastic ropes discovered on the shores and in the mangroves of Bali to transform them into textile art, in collaboration with the local community. With this commission, the artist addresses pressing environmental and social issues: ocean pollutants and the destruction of marine resources; the herbal appeal of the island and its tourist appeal. Inspired by the Balinese philosophy of balancing energies, Ari Bayuaji’s technique strives to transform the “negative” into the “positive”.
For his exhibition at the Biosphere, the artist, who divides his time between Bali and Montgenuine, invites us to a replica of his Balinese workspace. A real foray into his universe, which stages the fabrics and objects that surround him: coloured ropes, evocative tapestries, wooden sculptures, Balinese furniture, statuettes, recycled fabrics. . . Ari Bayuaji tells the story of creating a colorful and active network around this universe. The use of classic weaving techniques, the recovery of those ropes. . . And all this with a not unusual purpose of preserving the environment and transforming waste into works of art.
Weaving the Ocean is the result of the effort and ingenuity of a community, as well as a tribute to Indonesia’s textile traditions and the central role the sea plays in the culture of this archipelago.
Weaving the Ocean’s task was developed with the Arts Council of Canada’s Explore and Create program.
November 25, 2023 to September 8, 2024
Zero0. The arts at the heart of the ecological transformation
Presented as part of a vast studio project, the Zer0 exhibition brings together ten artists from other disciplines. The artists were invited to be inspired by the effects of a study on the transition to 0 waste conducted by Polytechnique Montréal and Équiterre, and their challenge. It was turning clinical knowledge into works of art to raise awareness about ecological changes.
With this initiative, the curators of the exhibition, professors Virginie Francoeur and Sophie Bernard, aimed above all to demonstrate that art can play a role in promoting eco-responsible behaviors. The public is invited to actively participate by responding to a survey that will measure the influence of the arts on their own behavior. The Biosphere is the ideal place for this debate between scientists, artists and citizens to take shape!
Artists: Martin Beauregard, Jean Désy, Marie-Chloé Duval, Virginie Francoeur, Jason Gillingham, Annie Groovie, Théâtre I. N. K. , Rodney Saint-Éloi, Studio Ascètes and Bernard Voyer.
Curators: Virginie Francoeur and Sophie Bernard, professors at the Polytechnique Montréal
This exhibition was made possible thanks to the contribution of the Polytechnique Montréal, the Council for Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, the Circular Economy Research Network, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Équiterre, the Polytechnique Montréal Foundation and alumni, the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Operationalization of Sustainable Development, Mirari, Koze Productions and Kashiba Studio.
November 25, 2023 to April 7, 2024
Saturday with the family
This new activity is aimed at young people from 6 to 12 years old and their families, every first Saturday of the month until April. Participants have the opportunity to look at the themes of the exhibitions from another perspective, and meet artists, scientists. and citizens committed to the environment.
On December 2, Maya Cousineau Mollen will read her Christmas story, Le Noël des animaux de los angeles forêt.
January 6: See the exhibition Riopelle, a wild and loose bird and make a collage of the artist’s techniques and the birds that surround us.
On February 3rd, the team of scientists was introduced to the film As the Gull Flies.
On March 2, do it yourself with recycled fabrics at artist Ari Bayuaji’s corporate through his exhibition Weaving the Ocean: In Ari Bayuaji’s Studio.
For more information: www. espaceourlavie. ca
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