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STYRELSEN FOR STÖR KONST (Stockholm,
Sweden), The Anti Embassy - “The Most Equal
Place in the World”, 2021
As part of a high-level diplomatic mission, the Board
for Grand Art has opened an embassy in the Port
of Québec. At first glance, the small structure seems
to have everything such a building might need. But
closer inspection reveals that the Swedish collective
has deliberately subverted institutional codes in
order to denounce the inequalities of Sweden’s art
world. The critical discourse of this fictitious embassy
has set out to break the illusions of a country often
held up as the most equal place in the world.
Presented in partnership with the OpenArt biennial
(Örebro, Sweden). EXMURO is grateful to the
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the
Conseil des arts du Canada for its financial support.

Giorgia Volpe (Quebec City, Quebec), “Suitcases”, 2021
These suitcases by Giorgia Volpe, set up in locations throughout
the city, seem to have been left on the roadside – perhaps
forgotten, or lost, or voluntarily discarded by their owners.
But the suspect luggage does not contain personal belongings:
they are solid blocks of cast concrete. Thus fixed in their
inert, massive state, these unusable suitcases evoke the
recent constraints placed on nomadic existences and human
migration.

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