MAXXI’s Collection of Art and Architecture represents the founding element of the museum and defines its identity. Since October 2015, it has been on display with different arrangements of works.
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Artist based in Tiohtià:ke, today also called Montréal. Her practice includes video installation, sculpture, animation and collaborative ventures. She holds a diploma in New Media from B.C.I.T. and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University. Her video and virtual reality work has been exhibited internationally in festivals, on screens and during residencies. Frances has exhibited at the Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides, Parisian Laundry, Centre Clark, Oboro and the Satosphere of the Société des Arts Technologiques (SAT) in Montreal. Several of her animations and a stereoscopic virtual reality animation have been supported by the National Film Board of Canada. She is currently an artist in residency at the Darling Foundry (2019-2022).
photo © Vivien Gaumand
“Ecology is permanent economy.”
—Women-led Chipko Movement, India, 1970s
Bedfellows is a reflection on the alienating condition we’re all living in, created and directed by Canadian artist Frances Adair Mckenzie. Now that things are changing, Mckenzie offers an alternative for what living, thriving and dying might mean for humans. To do it, she uses a rich repertoire of video effects and voiceovers by poets Maya Khamala and David M. Armstrong. All these voices together tell us a tale of otherness and invite us to see through the eyes of other creatures and consciousnesses.
Inspired by Robin Wall Kimmerer’s writings on forests and environmental biology and by Ursula Le Guin’s writings on futuristic anthropology, the artist borrows from the natural world concepts such as sexual mimicry, evolution and collaboration between species, to imagine new ways of living. Bedfellows insists on the possibility that, taken together, poetry, love and history can lead us beyond our fear of change, towards new horizons.
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header: Frances Mckenzie, Bedfellows, video still
BIO
Frances Adair Mckenzie