Exhibition Yoko Ono: LIBERTÉ CONQUÉRANTE/GROWING FREEDOM
Phi Foundation
April 25-oct 2019
An exhibition co-curated by Cheryl Sim and Gunnar B. Kvaran
Pen on Egg shells, copper.
photo ©Yoko Ono
Water Event is a collaborative work between Yoko Ono and 12 Canadian artists:
Image © Fondation Phi pour l’art contemporain, photos: Richard-Max Tremblay.
Excerpt from the round table:
Her goal for the work is to give a protocol for each person to create the art at home. The materials are two eggs, each to imbue and inscribe with a name: one’s own, and the name of another person “at war with themselves.” In breaking each egg, one watches past suffering pour out, and then refills the present with love. Two broken eggshells perch atop wires on a shelf, each an artefact of Melançon’s own personal and intimate engagement with the instruction. Melançon is unique among participants in departing completely from the literal task of constructing a vessel for water, and attending instead to Ono’s parenthetical suggestion that water is love.
Read the entire text by Shirin Radjavi about the round table between the artists and moderator Victoria Carrasco.
Preliminary work: Revolutions Start at Home Series I, 2014
A daily gesture to create inner change.
Katherine Melançon 