Mireille Lavoie + Alexandre David｜The breathing room

Original 米诺Mino Mstudio 2022-08-05

M'room Art project

▲海报Poster

呼吸的房间

The breathing room

我们将用一块背胶黑板来覆盖房间及其门，窗，角落等，以这种方式来重新定义在现有空间里营造一个“新的空间”。黑板的表面上我们会用图像——这种‘视觉笔记’来呈现出‘呼吸的空间’。这个新空间更多层面是营造一个精神上的私密的空间，人们可以象征性地居住在“里面”，黑板上所呈现的绘画空间将和现实空间产生干扰。这个短暂的项目也像一个实验室，用粉笔一次次的抹去似乎是在思考过程中脑海所经过的不同想法。

Basically, we plan on working with a strip of adhesive chalkboard surface that will surround the space, following the existing features (doors, windows, corners). This pictorial plane, will define a new space within the existing space. On the surface of this chalkboard, images and "visual notes" will present what we call "breathable spaces". The idea is to give a sense of an intimate space that one can inhabit metaphorically. The drawings on the chalkboards will be made in such a way that the drawn space sort of interfere with the real space. This ephemeral project is also like a laboratory for ideas, with chalk, erased again and again, functionning somewhat like mentally moving through ideas.

Mireille Lavoie and Alexandre David 2017-11

艺术家简介Short biographies:

Mireille Lavoie 是一个加拿大艺术家，居住并且工作在蒙特利尔，是Edouard-Montpetit大学的一位老师。她的作品在加拿大的多个画廊、艺术中心以及公共场合展出。

Mireille Lavoie is a Canadian artist that lives and works in Montreal. Her work in sculpture, that revolves around the fragility of ornamental arrangements, has been shown in different galleries, art centers and public spaces in Canada. She also teaches art at Edouard-Montpetit College.

▲艺术家Mireille Lavoie

Alexandre David 是一个居住于蒙特利尔的艺术家并且也是魁北克Laval大学的教授。他的雕塑作品经常与建筑有关，作品在加拿大、英国、荷兰、瑞士、法国、奥地利、克罗地亚以及中国的多个美术馆和画廊中展出。他曾获得很多加拿大的荣誉以及奖金，是蒙特利尔的Parisian Laundry Gallery签约艺术家。

Alexandre David is a Canadian artist based in Montreal and professor at the School of Art of Laval University in Quebec City. His work in sculpture often relates to architecture. David's work has been shown in museums and galleries across Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland, France, Austria, Croatia and China. He has received numerous grants and awards in Canada. He is represented by the Parisian Laundry Gallery in Montreal.

▲艺术家Alexandre David

Mireille Lavoie和Alexandre David自2010年开始一起合作一些艺术项目。

Mireille Lavoie and Alexandre David have collaborated together on a few projects since 2010.

▲呼吸的房间｜作品方案草图

两位来自加拿大的艺术家将在“M的房间”共同完成一件作品，这也是首次有国外艺术家参与“M的房间”艺术项目。他们很乐意邀请国内艺术家一起参与这个为期只有一天的作品，艺术家郭鸿锦Aviitaguo将与他们一起完成现场绘画部分工作，编剧、舞者席琳Linn结合他们的作品主题进行现场舞蹈+行为即兴表演。

2017年11月4日下午3点，Mireille Lavoie和Alexandre David《呼吸的房间》在Mstudio开幕。下午5点，我将和加拿大策展人周琰及两位艺术家一同，就他们的艺术创作、参与“M的房间”的机缘、国外独立空间的生态等话题进行交流。

请扫码关注我在一直播平台帐号“M演播室”同步观看我的现场导览和对话直播内容。

Two Canadian artists are going to do a collaboration art work in M’s Room, which is the first international art project taking place in here. Mireille and Alexandre’d like to invite Chinese artists to join in them for this one-day project. Artist Aviitaguo will do the drawing with them together, screenwriter and dancer Linn’s going to do an improvisation performance combined with some dance according to the project theme.

3pm, on Nov 4 of 2017, this Saturday, the breathing room by Mireille Lavoie and Alexandre David will start. At 5pm, Mireille Lavoie、Alexandre David，a Canadian curator Zhou Yan and I are going to do a talk on line, about the two artists’work, how they get to know M’s Room and how the western independent art spaces are doing.

Please scan the QR code blow, get the access to the on-line talk.

米诺Mino 2017-11-01

▲Art works｜Mireille Lavoie

米雷耶・拉沃伊的创作以雕塑为主，从装饰性设计的脆弱性这一特殊角度出发探索，以精致、静谧、巧妙的视觉感触，暗示自然与人工形式的无常性。微妙的自发破坏机制在沉静的形态中溢出。

Mireille Lavoie works in sculpture, that revolves around the fragility of ornamental arrangements, exploring the temporality of natural and human-made forms with a delicate, serene, and subtle touch. A kind of spontaneous fracture, deconstruction and quietly in peace with time and space streaming through her work.

亚历山大・大卫通常采用最常用的建筑材料复合木板，在公共空间和展览空间建造特定场地雕塑、装置和介入作品，创造建筑与雕塑、私密与公共、内与外、具身体验和精神表现、功能性和无用性共存的美学体验空间。结构简单，形式、功能的考虑基于可用性和视觉体验的结合，视觉体验和功能性两方面都以简洁、节俭、契合人与构造环境的互动性为原则。他的绘画、影像等其他形式创作不局限于，但是精神上与上述美学原则吻合。

Alexandre David often makes use of architectural material plywoods to create sculptures, installations and interventions in public spaces, which lie in between architecture and sculpture, private and public, inside and outside, physical experience and mental representation, the functional and the useless. His pieces have structural simplicity, explore the form and function of the built environment, and are grounded in the relationship between visual experience and use. Simple, economical, inciting physical engagement and active participation in the built environment are his aesthetic attitude. His other forms of works such as drawing and media works are not limited but in accordance with these principles.

策展人/推荐人：周琰