Art of Research is a publication and exhibition project bringing together the works of Stephanie Comilang, k.g. Guttman, Catherine Lescarbeau and Thérèse Mastroiacovo. The project originated with a desire to valorize those artistic practices based on research and experimentation, from the idea of resisting the reflex to cover up the reflexive portion, the artistic posture so essential to developing a creative project—an artwork. It is thus a question of bringing forth this muted behind-the-scenes, to cast light on those untilled moments, moments of sway, if not of tension, between the conceptualization of a project and its realization.

Art of Research is divided into three components: the present exhibition, the notebooks that testify to the research undertaken by each of the artists, and a publication documenting the works produced and including an introductory text as well as texts by Biba Bell, Mika Hannula, Laura Huertas Millán and Sarah Turcotte, that take a discursive look at the project as a whole. Examining the singularity of each practice as well as the field that research occupies as an object of knowledge and the role of art in the dissemination of knowledge, this fifth book joins the four research notebooks which, together, form a single object.

The publication Art of Research was made possible with the support of Periculum. Foundation for Contemporary Art.