Michelle Lacombe Performance at Montserrat Gallery

Michelle Lacombe (Montreal, QC) has developed a unique body-based practice since obtaining her BFA from Concordia University in 2006. Purposefully minimalist, her research-based practice is located somewhere between the concerns of performance and the visual arts (drawing, painting, sculpture), where bodily gesture and mark marking are entwined and confused. Both confrontational and tragic, her short actions often generate corporeal states of being and/or body markings that exist as conceptual (performances of) representations (or extensions) of her body. Her work has been shown in Canada, the US, and Germany in the context of performance events, exhibitions, and colloquiums.

Montserrat Gallery’s Summer Pop-Ups is a series of short term exhibitions and experiences, a format that has gained in popularity in recent years. Designed to bring people together in an energetic atmosphere, each week features a new theme, a range of related events and a closing reception. http://www.montserrat.edu/galleries/montserrat/