The project
All inclusive, this weft, an atoll that is also a vestige of devoration
Translation to come
About the artist
François Lemieux
François Lemieux’s artistic approach is postdisciplinary, bringing together research and practices of image and object in the form of exhibitions, publications, and collective situations—so many invitations to decenter the gaze and to experience language, space, and power otherwise. Recent projects include rushes (2025), Museum der Moderne, Salzburg; Organ of Cause and Effect (2022–24), Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin / SP2, Berlin / bb15, Linz; Radical Imagination: Désœuvrer la valeur / Derivative Value, curated with Erik Bordeleau, Marilou Lemmens, and Bernard Schutze, VOX—Centre de l’image contemporaine, Montréal (2022); Going to, Making do, Passing Just the Same, with Edith Brunette, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montréal (2020–21) / Biennale nationale de sculpture contemporaine, Trois-Rivières (2022) / Espace Mach, Université de Sherbrooke (2022); Variations autour d’un patio, curated by Pavel Pavlov, Le Patio, Aylmer (2021); Primary Attempts and Related Materials, Tenjinyama Art Studio, Sapporo (2019); and un soleil difficile (2017), VOX—Centre de l’image contemporaine, Montréal.
His publications include Going to, Making do, Passing Just the Same, co-edited with Edith Brunette, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montréal (2020), and Le Merle — A Journal of Words and Deeds, an ongoing online publication since 2011: lemerle.xyz. The latest issue, Horizons croisés : Montréal-Beyrouth, was published in 2025 and edited with Mirna Abiad-Boyadjian.
François Lemieux is currently pursuing a practice-based PhD at the Open Arts Institute of Salzburg’s Mozarteum University, Austria, under joint supervision with the University of Ottawa. He lives and works in Tiohtià/Montréal and occasionally teaches at the Université du Québec en Outaouais.