Insertion. Contamination. Dispersion. presents a critical, playful and analytic look at museology. The exhibition shows works which touch different aspects of the artistic institution, proposing a reflection on the role of the museum, and exploring the principal aspects of its activity in the field of art and of the community in which it exists. As the title Insertion. Contamination. Dispersion. indicates, the exhibition gathers together works which examine their accommodation to the institution without masking their essential collaboration with the museum. The spectator is thus invited not only to discover contemporary artistic practice, but also to appreciate the role of the museum and to question the effect of its intervention.

 

With this goal in mind, guest curator Dominique Sirois-Rouleau has asked eight young artists – Arnaud Baysset, Mathieu Beauséjour, Patrick Bérubé, Simon Bilodeau, Adad Hannah, Marc-Antoine K. Phaneuf, David K. Ross and Dominique Sirois – to take a light-hearted look at their relationship with the museum. Working with the usual museological tasks of exposition, collection and conservation, these artists treat them with both perspicacity and mockery. As well, some of them have produced a work specially for this exhibition. These pieces in situ incorporate even the architecture of the museum.