THE MOTION AND THE ACT

From October14 to November 13, 2021.

McBride Contemporain is delighted to present “The Motion and the Act,” a group show bringing together artists Nadège Grebmeier Forget, Michelle Furlong, and Ara Osterweil. The exhibition centres around the tensions generated by anticipatory, in-between states. Through their respective mediums, each artist confronts this constrained, unsustainable threshold, where possibility and potential themselves can create a place of horror or beauty.

“The Motion and the Act” features a webcam video work by Grebmeier Forget, intimate in its content and size, yet still reverberating through the empty blank space that frames it. Her twirling body serves as the vehicle through which anticipation is felt, each rotation creating private pink abstractions only viewable by one viewer at a time. This show also introduces new drawings by the artist, framed distortions on the glossy surface of magazine pages, utilizing the immediacy of makeup to disfigure what exists to be experienced inside the boundary.