MICHELLE BUI, LAURA FINDLAY, XAN SHIAN | RÊVERIE

Projet Pangée is pleased to present Reverie, an exhibition which brings together the work of Michelle Bui, Laura Findlay and Xan Shian. The following poem, written by Xan Shian, serves as the exhibition text.

A native of Montreal, Michelle Bui received a BFA in Painting and Drawing from Concordia University and is currently a Master's candidate in Visual and Media Arts at the Université du Québec à Montréal. In 2017, pursuing her research on the materiality of photography at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris, she represented the emerging talents of photography at the Jeux de la Francophonie in Abidjan.

Laura Findlay is born in Montreal and is currently a Toronto-based artist who makes paintings and installations that examine understanding events through fragmentary information. She completed her MFA at the University of Guelph in 2014.

Xan Shian is a multidisciplinary artist, photographer, and writer living in Montreal. Her work seeks to bridge the chasm between photography and poetry, while navigating tropic tensions through material, personal and interpersonal relationships. Drawing on rhetorical theory, philosophy, and literature she filters her work through the lens of lived experience, both that of her own and of others. She has a BA in Communication Studies from Concordia University (2012), and is currently finishing a BFA in Studio Arts, Photography, also at Concordia University.