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Points de départ, points qui lient


  • Foundation 451 & 465, St-Jean Street Montréal, Québec Canada (map)

For "Points de départ, points qui lient", a selection of bindi paintings will be on display at the Foundation, including the Heroides series (2016), which refers to Ovid’s The Heroides. This collection of epistolary poems is written in the voice of the heroines of Greek and Roman mythology, who address and respond to their lost, left, and imagined lovers. An ongoing series of map works that cover and mask Mercator world maps will also be exhibited for the first time. The application of bindis mark, scar, and punctuate territories and borders, questioning the north/south polarities of country and nation, as well as the visual misrepresentations of a European geodesy.

Also presented is the colossal work An absence of assignable cause (2007), an imagining of the anatomic heart of a blue sperm whale, made to scale and enveloped in a skin of bindis. At once the biggest heart in the world and an inquiry of love, this work offers the paradox of seeing with the inner eye into the heart of the other.