Karilee Fuglem: “draw a breath, rendre de la lumière"

16 November 2024 - 11 January 2025

OPENING

SATURDAY 16 NOVEMBER FROM 3 PM TO 5:30 PM

ARTIST IN ATTENDANCE

 

Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain is excited to present Draw a Breath, Rendre de la lumière by Karilee Fuglem from November 16, 2024, to January 11, 2025. In addition to the artist's recent works, this exhibition will also offer an opportunity to discover—or rediscover—her installation from 1997 Untitled (breathing wall) made of silicon and fans. As part of the 2024 Fall Cultural Preview, this work was mentioned in an article by Jérôme Delgado in Le Devoir.

 

"Bodies in space. From me to you something indeterminate blurs our edges. Is not empty.

 

This space. Intimate but public. This gallery, a space for contemplation. For reflection.

 

We reflect.  From every surface. 

 

You draw a breath and return it as light.

 

I offer it back to you as resistant architecture. Expansive, tender. 

 

I offer it back in maps of circles, little "o"s, puffs of air, circular spaces, rhythmic systems. Streams. 

 

Circulatory.

 

Back to where we drift into each other, part of everything." - KF

 

Biography

Karilee Fuglem's work takes the form of installations, drawings, photographs and artist books, through which she explores visual subtlety as a key to embodied perception. In recent years, her work has explored architectural space, light, and air movement as integral elements of sensory and ineffable works. She seeks to make visible aspects of an environment that are typically hidden or unnoticed.

Raised in Kamloops, British Columbia, Fuglem has lived in Montreal since 1989, and frequently travels back and forth between her two "homelands." She has presented solo across Canada, notably at the Darling Foundry (Montreal), the Koffler Gallery (Toronto), Oakville Galleries (Oakville, Ontario), Centre d'art Expression (Ste-Hyacinthe), Two Rivers Gallery (Prince George, BC) and in numerous group exhibitions, including the National Gallery of Canada (2007), the Musée des beaux-arts du Québec (2016), the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (1997) and the Biennale de Montréal (1998 and 2011). 

Her work can be found in the collections of the Musée d'art contemporain, the Musée national des beaux arts du Québec, the National Gallery of Canada, The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, BMO, Bennett Jones LLP among others.