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Photo: André Turpin and Léa Valérie Létourneau

Clusters

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  • Past Event
  • Photography
  • Film
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PHI Centre Galerie 1
407, Saint-Pierre St
Montreal, Quebec, H2Y 2M3

Monday and Tuesday:
9 AM to 5 PM

Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday:
9 AM to 6:30 PM

Friday and Saturday:
11 AM to 7 PM

Last entry: 30 minutes before close

All ages

Free, reservations required

Silent reflections of our temporary presence

The exhibition is a series of photographs created in duo, captured on a medium-format digital medium, and printed on 1.5 m x 1 m paper. Expect to spend between 15 and 30 minutes exploring all the “clusters”.

About the exhibition

Clusters is a series of photographs created in duo, by artists Léa Valérie Létourneau and André Turpin.

These clusters are, above all, places. Spaces shaped by time and "dressed" by the humans who have passed through, worked, created, or played there. Like nests in which successive layers of material and life have been deposited, bearing witness to dramas and troubles, these habitats have triggered a raw, immediate, and precise sensation in the artists. With each of these fictions, LĂ©tourneau and Turpin attempt to reproduce this initial sensation.

Through carefully staged mise-en-scène, Turpin and Létourneau privilege the spirit of place, transforming each location into a complex tapestry of human presence. Their work invites us to pause and reflect on the traces we leave behind in our transient passages through life, capturing the delicate balance between memory and materiality in these spectral locations.

This exhibit marks the debut collaboration between Turpin, an accomplished cinematographer and director, and LĂ©tourneau, a skilled art director, both hailing from the film industry. Clusters is born from the unique fusion of their ability, bringing a cinematic eye to still photography and creating a powerful visual narrative.

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Photo: Irwin Clamp

The artists

André Turpin

André Turpin is a director, cinematographer, and screenwriter based in Montreal. He has written and directed three feature films (Zigrail, Un Crabe Dans La Tête, and Endorphine) as well as eight short films. As a cinematographer, he has worked on the visuals of around thirty films, including several directed by Denis Villeneuve, Xavier Dolan, Monia Chokri, and Philippe Falardeau.

Léa Valérie Létourneau

Art director for various commercial projects and movie set decorator, she has worked on a wide range of Quebec productions (La Chasse Galerie, My Salinger Year, Gurov & Anna) as well as American productions (Pet Sematary, Moonfall, Scream VI). Trained as a set designer, she has collaborated with Lucion on the design and installation of shadow theatre (gigantic art form) for international light festivals in Moscow, Brussels, Medellin and the United States. She has also collaborated on the creation of their works for festivals in China, Lyon, Mexico and Jerusalem.

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