AN INVISIBLE MINORITY

The invisibility at issue here stems from a critical assessment of museum institutions and reflects on the system of recognition within the Quebecer contemporary art milieu. The notion of identity develops as an ensemble of data which makes it possible for an individual, for a group, to form themselves, and also to differentiate themselves from others (Norbert, 1991). Through my background, I am obliged to produce art which is not quite Quebecer: it is so-called ethnic art. To call into question the gaze of others upon me is to analyze my position within my artistic practice as well as within the art world. This gaze underlines issues related to diversity, to various forms of institutional instrumentalisation and to the contemporary devices of art related to the exclusion of the practices of Black visible minority artists.