For the last of the summer series, AGO Home Stage welcomes artist Eve Tagny as she presents a work-in-progress entitled, Jardin Mnémonique (Mnemonic Garden) part of an ongoing research project developed in collaboration with Florencia Sosa-Rey and Élisabeth-Anne Dorléans. The work, a blend of performance, video and sound, explores grief, trauma and love. The artist and her collaborators, heaving blocks of stone in a choreographic daze, pass across the screen, presenting slow and familiar movements. 

The artist will be in conversation with Aden Solway, Curatorial Assistant for Live Projects and Performance as they discuss commemorative rituals, rhythm and gardening.

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Eve Tagny is a Tiohtià:ke/Montreal-based artist. Her practice focuses on the resonances between the bereavement process and nature’s rhythms, cycles, forms and materials, that serve as the ultimate guides for renewal. Navigating between writing, photography, video and installation, her work explores the various pathways of resiliency adopted by culturally-hybrid communities in order to free themselves of violent legacies and envision sustainable futurities. 

Aden Solway is the Curatorial Assistant for Live Projects & Performance at the AGO. Trained as an artist and a historian, they have held positions across three continents, supporting projects led by Sullivan Galleries, The Scotiabank Contact Festival, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Princeton University, The Art Institute of Chicago and York University. Over the last decade, they have maintained residency and fellowship positions at Burren College Of Art (Ireland), Museum of Contemporary Art (Toronto), Cornell University's (NYC) and Nave Projects (Ecuador). They are the founder of Closed Office, a research laboratory that investigates the myriad intersections of urbanism, art and performance.