MARC-ANTOINE K. PHANEUF

PRÉMONITIONS

2024 | Variable message sign

Co-presented by Quebec city.

Like an oracle right out of a sci-fi movie, Marc-Antoine K. Phaneuf’s work offers a series of premonitions. Despite its comical format, its messages are rather pessimistic and foretell a dystopian future. Delivered in three parts or in a perpetual loop, these prophecies might evoke the fallout of capitalism or the approaching end of the world. Unlike tales set in a fictional past, these stories are part of the very real future. What role do we play in the realization of this narrative?

MARC-ANTOINE K. PHANEUF

Marc-Antoine K. Phaneuf’s works present themselves as lighthearted invitations to create a narrative with him. The artist and writer brings together disparate or similar elements from popular culture, to humorous effect, and his accumulations invite us to create links between certain details, and even question their surprising presence. Several artist-run-centers and galleries across Québec have held solo exhibitions of his work, which has also been included in group exhibitions at the National Gallery of Canada, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke, and other venues in Québec, Canada, and in France.

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