Maïder Fortuné and Annie MacDonell

From November 13, 2025 to January 17, 2026
Opening on November 13

Curator: France Choinière

The works of Maïder Fortuné and Annie MacDonell unfold as an inquiry into transcendence, open yet lucid, that is expressed both formally and intellectually. In their collaborative and individual works, art and life–from a feminist perspective–are put into dialogue in such a way that personal experience is made the groundwork for imagining alternative, at times radical forms of existence, learning, and perception. Their close and repeated collaborations, their synthesis of ideas and imagination, embody a desire to sketch new outlines of the Self, which rethinks our relationships to others and to community and intonates that herein lies a pathway to understanding the world differently while sidestepping institutional precepts.

Psychedelic and/or ecstatic experiences that edge on the Sublime recur throughout their works as themes and motifs, serving to examine various states of consciousness and to shake up or overturn the accepted limits of multiple norms: social, economic, political, narrative, visual, and formal. While within their work narrative and image make up an inseparable whole, possibility takes its full expression in the subjectivity specific to each form, in a sense, in the margin of flaw brought by the ambiguity and ubiquity of the subject matter. 

Without imparting a catastrophized worldview, Fortuné and MacDonell suggest that an emptying, a feeling of finality, can sometimes offer relief, boding for the better.  

F.C.