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Ulrika Sparre (Stockholm,
Sweden), “I am the Light”,
2021
Lightboxes with short
PASSAGES INSOLITES is focusing poetic messages have been
placed all around Quebec
on women artists through our first-ever City, a literary circuit to be
partnership with the OpenArt biennial of discovered during a stroll
Örebro, Sweden, which has brought work through town. These lyrical
by three Swedish collectives and artists: incursions in surprising
STYRELSEN FOR STÖR KONST, Ulrika locations enliven the urban
landscape with charming
Sparre, and Susanna Hesselberg. In 2022, but cryptic statements that
three Quebec artists will complete the are at once personal and
exchange by exhibiting at OpenArt. evasive. Philosophical in
nature, the excerpts open
PASSAGES INSOLITES circulating the door to existential
works contemplation and invite
passersby to plunge
EXMURO arts publics has also begun momentarily into an
circulating works from PASSAGES introspective reverie.
INSOLITES to other cities in Quebec, Presented in partnership
Canada, and around the world as a means with the OpenArt biennial
(Örebro, Sweden).
of promoting its artists, achievements, EXMURO is grateful to the
and expertise designing and presenting Conseil des arts et des lettres
temporary public artworks. This year du Québec and the Conseil
alone, Longueuil, Trois-Rivières, des arts du Canada for its
Terrebonne, Montreal, and Gatineau (as financial support.
part of its Sentier Culturel initiative) are
hosting works initially conceived and
presented in Quebec City for PASSAGES
INSOLITES.

The first-ever PASSAGES INSOLITES
catalogue makes the perfect souvenir!
For the first time in our history, we Susanna Hesselberg,
are releasing a PASSAGES INSOLITES (Malmö, Sweden), “When
exhibition catalogue. It’s the perfect way my father died it was like a
to take some art home with you, learn whole library had burned
down”, 2015
more about the stories, works, and artists, Scarcely visible on the
and savour the memory of the 8th edition horizon, a library plunges
of this unique public art festival. deep into the abyss of an
EXMURO and the City of Québec underground shaft. The
would like to thank the Ministère de riveting sight invites further
la Culture et des Communications, the exploration, but the wealth
of knowledge and poetry
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, we could fall into remains
the Canada Council of the Arts, the out of reach. The title
Government of Canada, Québec City references song lyrics by
tourism, the Consulat general de France Laurie Anderson to evoke
à Québec. We are also grateful to site the all-consuming pain of
losing a loved one. This
and artwork partners : OpenArt, the buried library, not unlike a
Assemblée nationale du Québec, the tomb, reflects the mourning
Grand Théâtre de Québec, the Citadelle- for transmission interrupted,
Musée Royal 22e Régiment. dw for knowledge now lost,
irrevocably and forever.
Presented in partnership
Photography credit: with the OpenArt biennial
Stéphane Bourgeois_EXMURO (Örebro, Sweden).
EXMURO is grateful to the
www.passagesinsolites.com Conseil des arts et des lettres
du Québec and the Conseil
des arts du Canada for its
financial support.

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