Summer [Gestures to reignite fossilized landscapes] by Eve Tagny

May 12 – June 6, 2022

Eve Tagny

Summer [Gestures to reignite fossilized landscapes], 2020
HD video and sound. Duration: 25 minutes and 17 seconds

Curated by Cristina Ramos

Dreaming is a way of knowing the world through the body. Breathing moves in and out, day and night, life and death. Can dreaming be considered a ritual of passing? As the female bodies in the video float by, their hands suspended, vessels holding stones which hold time and awareness at the same time. We gaze, we become progressively absorbed in them. The impression of being a bounded individual distinct from the world dissolves.

Eve Tagny is a Tiohtià:ke/Montreal-based artist. Her practice considers gardens and disrupted landscapes as mutable sites of personal and collective memory — inscribed in dynamics of power, colonial histories and their legacies. Weaving lens-based mediums, installation, text and performance, she explores spiritual and embodied expressions of grief and resiliency, in correlation with nature’s rhythms, cycles and materiality.

Tagny has a BFA in Film Production from Concordia University and a Certificate in Journalism from University of Montreal. Recent exhibitions include Momenta Biennale, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and Centre Clark, Montreal; Cooper Cole, Gallery 44, and Franz Kaka, Toronto. She is the recipient of the Mfon grant (2018), the Plein Sud Bursary (2020) and has been shortlisted for the CAP Prize (2018), the Burtynsky Photobook Grant (2018) and the OAAG Award (2020).

Eve Tagny: Summer [Gestures to reignite fossilized landscapes], 2020

Performers: Élisabeth Dorléans Florencia Sosa Rey Eve Tagny

Image: Ralitsa Doncheva Eve Tagny

Production Assistant: Simon Belleau