EXHIBITION OVERVIEW
Jérôme Havre’s practice concentrates on issues of identity, communities and territories, investigating the political and sociological processes of contemporary life. While artist-in-residence, he is working on the production of a long video utilizing puppets crafted for the project, that is set amongst the historical painting and objects of the AGO.
Blackboards long served to spread or record information, and the materials used to make them have varied across time and cultures. While blackboards are becoming obsolete in our schools, Havre has recreated one here at the AGO in the spirit of this long tradition. You are invited to interact with and to surround his photographic works with your writings, quotations, dialogues, graffiti and drawings.
Visit Jérôme Havre’s Artist-in-Residence page for more details
ABOUT THE COMMUNITY GALLERY
The Community Gallery in the Weston Family Learning Centre is an exhibition and project space which provides a platform for artistic experimentation and dissemination. Focused specifically on the processes of making art, and those ideas that feed into contemporary artistic practice, the gallery seeks to take risks and push the boundaries of how work is traditionally represented within formal institutions. The space draws also on the voices of those groups, regardless of age, sex, profession, and socio-economic constraints, who are at once represented and marginalized within normal institutional channels. In doing so, the Gallery steps away from conventional definitions of what is meant by the word "Community", seeking new interpretations and evolutionary paths for the possibilities of art-making. The Community Gallery is comprised of the main space and a smaller space called The Nook.