Michèle Provost
Subtitle: everything must go = liquidation totale
By: Catherine Sinclair, curator
Contributors: Sinclair, Catherine, 1978- writer of added commentary, organizer; Ottawa Art Gallery
Publisher: Ottawa Art Gallery = Galerie d'art d'Ottawa
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Ottawa, Ontario
Language: eng
Number of pages: 46
ISBN-13: 9781894906593
Subjects: Exhibitions; Expositions; Multimedia (Art); Canadian Art
Other titles: Everything must go; Liquidation totale
Description: "This exhibition catalogue documents Gatineau-based multimedia artist Michèle Provost's ambitious and poignant examination of the place of art and artists within a market-driven society. Highlighting the potential for commodification, she creates a liquidation sale of a line of handmade home décor items, aesthetically based on the legacy--both real and imagined--of an iconic Canadian artist of the twentieth century. Referencing the current craze for home-design, these tongue-in-cheek goods represent the contents needed to furnish a bedroom and a living room, yet are presented in the dismantled state of a shop's "final sale" section. In doing so, Provost points to an art world in which artists provide (and are themselves) the product, while also pointing to the consumer society in which this concept is embraced in favour of meaning and truth."--
Notes: Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Ottawa Art Gallery from October 11, 2018 to March 17, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in English and French.