11 Chloë Lum and yannick desranleau

Title: My Need for Civility Impedes This as I Shot Harsh Looks Towards Those Who Can’t Seem to Follow the Rules.

Dimensions: 47.2in x 31.5in

Year of Completion: 2018

Medium: Ink Sublimation on Polyester

Estimated Value: $1000

Courtesy of the Artists

My Need for Civility Impedes This as I Shot Harsh Looks Towards Those Who Can't Seem to Follow the Rules is a work issued from a research process on the personal writings and correspondance of Clarice Lispector. Pulled from a fictive epistolary exchange between an artist and a deceased author, the quote states one of many observations on the ongoing negotiations between the body of one who experiences the world, and their direct environment. A series of flags presenting especially revealing quotes from this text got produced in Rio de Janeiro in the fall of 2018.

Chloë Lum and Yannick Desranleau are multi-disciplinary artists who work across photography, video, installation, sound, text, and performance. In their practice, they engage with the nature of collaboration, and relationships between bodies and inanimate objects. Recently, these subjects are examined through chronic illness as alterity. They are based in Tiohtiá:ke (Montreal) and have worked collaboratively since 2000.

They have exhibited in Canada the United States, and Europe notably at the  the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; the Kunsthalle Wien; BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art; Whitechapel Project Space, London; the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown; the Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto. Their work is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. In 2015, the duo was long-listed for the Sobey Art Award.