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This catalogue accompanies the exhibition A Place of Memory: Contexts of Existence, curated by Irene Campolmi, produced and circulated by the Musée d’art de Joliette. The exhibition was presented at the Musée d’art de Joliette from February 11 to May 14, 2023, at the Musée d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul from June 17 to November 5, 2023, and at Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art from May 10 to July 13, 2024.
22 x 30 cm (8 ½ x 11 in)
Soft cover
104 pages, illustrations in colour
Texts in french and in english
ISBN : 978-2-921801-88-1
About the authors —
Noa Bronstein
Noa Bronstein is a curator and writer based in Toronto. She has held the positions of executive director, inaugural senior curator, and project manager. She is currently Assistant Director of the Art Museum at the University of Toronto. Her writing has appeared in publications including Artforum, Prefix Photo, Canadian Art, Border Crossings, Journal of Curatorial Studies, and C Magazine.
Xenia Brown Pallesen
A PhD fellow in Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Copenhagen, Xenia Brown Pallesen is affiliated with the New Carlsberg Foundation research centre Art as Forum. Her research concerns participatory dissemination practices and their ability to extend conversations about contemporary art to a more diverse audience by modifying how art is communicated within art institutions. She holds an MA in art history from Copenhagen University and has previously worked for Kunstforeningen GL Strand and ART 2030.
Monique Brunet-Weinmann
A graduate in literature and art history, Monique Brunet-Weinmann has taught at McGill, UQAM, and Saint Paul University (Ottawa). Since 1974, she has been a contributor to Vie des Arts and Parcours. She has curated more than a dozen exhibitions and was awarded the Conseil de la culture des Laurentides prize in 1993. In June 2023, her book, Riopelle en quête de son mythe was published by Del Busso (Montréal), followed by Riopelle sur le vif in 2024 (Éditions Balzac, France).
Irene Campolmi
Currently Senior Curator at KØS Museum of Art in Public Spaces in Denmark, Irene Campolmi has worked as a curator and researcher at international and Danish art institutions for the past 14 years, including the Estonia Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, TANK Museum, Musée d’art de Joliette, The Power Plant, Musée d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul, Copenhagen Contemporary, MAAT, Walk&Talk, and Kunsthal Charlottenborg. In 2021, she won the Bikuben Foundation’s Vision Award with Copenhagen Contemporary for Yet, it Moves! Campolmi holds an MA in art history and museology from the University of Florence and was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute.
Adam HajYahia
Adam HajYahia is an independent researcher, writer, and curator from Palestine, currently living in New York. He is interested in images and performativity in the revolutionary context of Palestine and the region, psychoanalysis, labour, and negative economic speculation within contemporary art. His work and writing have been featured at various cultural institutions, such as MoMA PS1, Bard College, The Mosaic Rooms, the James Gallery at the CUNY Graduate Center, the Berlin Biennale 12, Mophradat, Harvard Law School, and Wolfson College, University of Oxford.
Emmanuel Iduma
Emmanuel Iduma is a writer whose work spans fiction, memoir, and criticism. He is the author of two acclaimed works of nonfiction, the travelogue A Stranger’s Pose (2018) and the memoir I Am Still With You (2023). His honours include the Windham-Campbell Prize for Literature, the C/O Berlin Prize for Theory, and the Irving Sandler Award for New Voices in Criticism from AICA-USA. His writing has appeared in Aperture, Art in America, Granta, Yale Review, n+1, and the New York Review of Books. He is based in Lagos, Nigeria, and Norwich, UK.
Maria Kjær Themsen
Maria Kjær Themsen is art editor at Dagbladet Information and works as a freelance curator and author. She has written about contemporary art for more than twenty years, and in 2021 she organized the award-winning exhibition Soil.Sickness.Society, about imbalances in current ecological, economic, and health systems. She also teaches art theory and philosophy at the Royal Danish Art Academy.
Samara Sallam
Samara Sallam, a stateless Palestinian born in Damascus in 1991, has trained as a visual artist, journalist, and hypnotherapist. Through multilayered narratives, Sallam investigates the social, cultural, and political intersections of language, body, and psyche. She holds an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and a BA from the Funen Art Academy. She has also studied visual arts at l’École Supérieure des Beaux-arts in Algeria and journalism at Damascus University in Syria.
This publication by the Musée d’art de Joliette, co-edited with the Musée d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul and Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, was produced as part of the Riopelle Centenary Celebrations, thanks to the generous support of the Audain Foundation, in collaboration with the Jean Paul Riopelle Foundation.
We would also like to thank Dominique Joyal for his generous contribution to the production of this catalog.