Exhibition Tour with Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens

March 28
Flanagan Family Gallery | 12 PM

Join Quebec-based artists Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens for a guided tour of Stacking Crates to Reach a Banana. The artists will lead visitors through the exhibition’s four interconnected bodies of work, reflecting on their practice and its exploration of the performing body across conditions of productive and non-productive labour.

Admission is free with registration; however, space is limited, so we encourage you to reserve your spot early.

About the Artists

Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens

Canadian artist duo, Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens, have been working together for over fifteen years. Their practice combines rigorous research with project-specific material exploration to examine issues at the intersection of ecology, economics, epistemology, and history. Their works take various forms, including installations, sculptures, videos, actions, artist's books, and public artworks. 

They use documentary research, archives, and the act of going to see for themselves what is happening to create works that present themselves as historically and culturally situated studies of vocabularies, practices, and forms of thought. Their work then proceeds to conceptual shifts, inventing formal and performative devices that bring these abstract systems to concretion by confronting them with materials and the body. 

Exploring epistemological questions related to quantification, classification, and representation procedures has led them to pay particular attention to the history and power of science and knowledge, including the language of economics, the aesthetics of data visualization, and the design of laboratory experiments. Their recent projects question the relationships humans have with nature and expand the concepts of hospitality, care, and communication between species.

Their work has been featured in solo exhibitions, group exhibitions, and international events, including at Movíl (Argentina); Jane Lombard Gallery (USA); the Ludwig Museum (Hungary); Fiskars Biennale (Finland); OFF-Biennale Budapest (Hungary); Columbus Museum of Art (USA); Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (Canada); Visningsrommet (Norway); Bienal de Cuenca (Ecuador); Istanbul Biennial (Turkey); Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (Canada); La Biennale de Montréal (Canada); Kunsthalle Mulhouse (France); Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (Norway), and Sharjah Biennial (United Arab Emirates).

They live in Durham-Sud (QC, Canada).