NAVIGATING CREATIVE VOICES
OUT THE WINDOW : A FILM BY MARGUERITE RANGER
with Marguerite Ranger and Edith Sévigny Martel
At the core of situationist thinking lies a simple intuition: our environments are never neutral. They shape perception, movement, and identity, just as we continuously reshape them in return. Objects, too, participate in this exchange: they accumulate presence, they reorganize space and sometimes, they ask to be displaced.
This sensitivity to lived environments is central to Out the Window, a collaborative project by filmmaker Marguerite Ranger and ceramicist Edith Sévigny Martel, in which a hand-built vessel is deliberately dropped from the window of the artist’s Montreal studio. The gesture is abrupt, almost humorous at first glance. Yet what unfolds through the film is something quieter: a reflection on attachment, spatial awareness, and the subtle agency objects can acquire in our lives.
This sensitivity to lived environments is central to Out the Window, a collaborative project by filmmaker Marguerite Ranger and ceramicist Edith Sévigny Martel, in which a hand-built vessel is deliberately dropped from the window of the artist’s Montreal studio. The gesture is abrupt, almost humorous at first glance. Yet what unfolds through the film is something quieter: a reflection on attachment, spatial awareness, and the subtle agency objects can acquire in our lives.
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PLAYING WITH WORDS: SURREALIST INTERVIEWS
by Rose Marie Valentina
Surrealist games are a series of experiments in language, collective practice, and the unconscious conducted between the 1920s and 1960s by the group of Surrealist artists and writers. Drawing inspiration from their archives, Rose Marie Valentina undertook the creation of a series of “surrealist” questions.
This approach aims to reveal lesser-known facets of the people interviewed, while weaving a new archive that reflects the creative minds of our time.
This approach aims to reveal lesser-known facets of the people interviewed, while weaving a new archive that reflects the creative minds of our time.
IN CONVERSATION: ALBERT RIERA GALCERAN , CO-FOUNDER OF ÉMERGENT AND CLARISSA
by Solveig Wilson Carrier
Approaching art through editing, curation, and artistic practice, Albert Riera Galceran articulates a vision grounded in intuition, encounter, and dialogue. As co-founder of émergent magazine and initiator of Clarissa, conceived during Frieze week, he imagines artist-led spaces that resist spectacle and market hierarchies in favor of fluid, community-driven exchange.
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CONVERSATION: PHOTOGRAPHER LOLA KINGSLEY
ON THE ART OF PORTRAITURE
by Solveig Wilson Carrier
Using analog photography, Lola Kingsley approaches portraiture through a restrained, minimalist lens, seeking authenticity over spectacle. Her images channel a feminine gaze shaped by historical and personal influences. Emerging from Montréal’s creative scene, Kingsley navigates a field long defined by gendered dynamics, quietly transforming the act of looking into a space of dialogue.
IN CONVERSATION: EMERGING CURATOR VITTORIA DI SAVOIA
by Solveig Wilson Carrier
As an emerging curator and multidisciplinary artist, Vittoria articulates her vision with clarity and purpose. In this conversation, she talks of championing new voices, cultivating inclusive spaces, and forging emotional resonance.
IN CONVERSATION: DESIGNER LOU BELLEFAIX ON FASHION IN ANTWERP
by Solveig Wilson Carrier
Lou Bellefaix, a fashion design student currently working at Maison Lemarié in Paris, invited me to attend the Graduate Fashion Show at the Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts. A perceptive guide into a world I was only beginning to navigate, she brought clarity to the details and undercurrents often invisible to an outsider.