Chloë Lum & Yannick Desranleau: The Garden Of A Former House Turned Museum

Chloë Lum & Yannick Desranleau, The Garden of a Former House Turned Museum, 2021, HD video still.

Chloë Lum & Yannick Desranleau: The Garden Of A Former House Turned Museum

Esker Foundation, Calgary, AB - Jul 23-Dec 18

by Michael Turner

Described as a “meta-musical,” this video installation by Montreal-based Chloë Lum and Yannick Desranleau is built around six songs composed from letters sent by a fictional artist to the Ukrainian-born Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector (1920-1977). In the same way letters become songs, objects that begin as body-bending performance props come to rest as sculpture. A more pressing transformation provides the thematic core of the exhibition: those who live with chronic pain and their ongoing
quest for relief.

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