About —
The Musée d’art de Joliette will present an exhibition by the duo Sarah Wendt and Pascal Dufaux from October 15, 2024 to January 12, 2025.
Biographies —
Sarah Wendt and Pascal Dufaux are multidisciplinary artists living and working in Tiohtiá:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. Their collaborative practice began in 2017 and involves sculpture, installation, video, and performance.
The pair’s first work, Strange mood and dissonant feelings, is a video-installation performance exploring the perception and memory of a body dancing in front of a live video archive of its own gestures. Strange mood was presented at Mois Multi in Quebec City and at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, among other venues.
In 2018, they developed The mountain moves while my fingernails grow, a speculative fable about the relationship between ephemeral human temporality and geological time. This became their first solo exhibition, presented at AXENÉO7 in Gatineau in 2019, and at The Rooms in St. John’s in 2022. A choreographic film version was later produced at Tangente Danse and presented at festivals in Canada and Scotland.
In 2021–22, the duo presented Hétérotopias, a performance with two dancers, live sound, and mobile sculpture, at festivals in multiple provinces, and for a residency at the Musée d’art de Joliette. The video version was shown in Montreal and Brussels.
Their project Ectoplasmic Studies, first exhibited at the Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides in 2021, was later developed as a solo exhibition at l’Écart in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, in 2023. Elements of the exhibition were shown in Undead Archive: 100 Years of Photographing Ghosts, at the University of Manitoba School of Art Gallery, in Winnipeg. Ectoplasmic Studies will tour locations in Montreal as part of the Montreal Arts Council’s 2024–25 program.
As artists working in tactile media, Sarah and Pascal were recently invited to Germany to conduct research on themes of tactility and accessibility in the arts with multidisciplinary artists with diverse sensory abilities. The project was carried out as a collaboration with the ongoing project [in]operabilities, at Theatre Kampnagel in Hamburg.
In collaboration with Goûtez Lanaudière! and Miel Morand.
Image in the banner:
Sarah Wendt + Pascal Dufaux, Honey Time, 2024. Photogram still from a video with Nien Tzu Weng.