Personal belongings
Artistic piece that aims to review and redefine the Latin American art collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
This piece is a direct commission from the artists María Ezcurra and Nuria Carton de Grammont. It was created specifically for the Connections exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, under the New Chapter program.
Objets personnel (Personal belongings / Objects personals) is a multimedia piece that showcases 21 testimonies and objects carried or treasured by immigrants from Latin American and Caribbean countries in their process of emigration to Quebec, Canada.
This piece aims to review and re-signify the museum's Latin American art collection from a participatory, inclusive, and postcolonial perspective, creating a collection of personal artifacts.
Due to the nature of this artistic work, the final format was a touchscreen. A multimedia object that may seem traditional but that gains great importance in the narrative of the piece where the museum and the observer can observe and get inside the intimacy of immigrant people and their objects without possessing them.
This piece is a lively interpretation of the aesthetics of immigration against the current global context of ethnonationalism.
“María Ezcurra and Nuria Carton from Grammont achieved the participation of 21 immigrants who were invited to share an object that reflects the immigration process, accompanied by their respective testimonies.
With this creation, they propose an aesthetic experience in which the subject-observer/subject-observed boundary breaks to give rise to a horizontality that is both creative and collective.”
For more details, click on the link to hear an interesting interview with both artists done by Radio Canada International.