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la clarté creuse les montagnes
la clarté creuse les montagnes considers art as a space of transformation, resistance, and political imagination. The exhibition was on view at the Musée d’art de Joliette, 145, rue du Père-Wilfrid-Corbeil, Joliette, Québec J6E 4T4, Canada, from February 7 to May 17, 2026.
la clarté creuse les montagnes, a group exhibition featuring works by eight artists, explores poetry, resistance, and emancipation through pottery, installation, painting, weaving, performance, and video. Musée d’art de Joliette, 145, rue du Père-Wilfrid-Corbeil, Joliette, Québec J6E 4T4, Canada. Runs February 7–May 17, 2026.
Exhibition Description
la clarté creuse les montagnes brings together work by asinnajaq, Nathalie Batraville, Stina Baudin, Amanda Boulos, Berirouche Feddal, Shannon Garden-Smith, Frantz Patrick Henry, and Tyson Houseman in an exhibition curated by Ariane De Blois. Spanning pottery, installation, painting, weaving, performance, and video, the exhibition explores how artistic creation can function as a poetic and political space of emancipation. Musée d’art de Joliette, 145, rue du Père-Wilfrid-Corbeil, Joliette, Québec J6E 4T4, Canada. February 7, 2026 — Runs through May 17, 2026. The curatorial text frames the exhibition around the question of what art can do in the face of the world’s adversity. Drawing on Audre Lorde’s writing on poetry as transformation, the exhibition positions artistic practice as a place where intimate experience and political possibility meet. The participating artists draw on family and collective memory, including nêhiyaw, Palestinian, and Haitian histories, as well as lived experience, revolt, and traditional knowledge. Across the exhibition, beauty and material gesture are treated as forms of resistance against hegemonic systems that constrain lives and imaginations.
