Over 2022 and into 2023, along with other artists Maude Arès, Damián Birbrier and Adam Kinner, I took part in visits and workshops at Club Ami in preparation for their 40th anniversary exhibition at Maison de la Culture de Côte-des-Neiges. I noticed early on how the staff and members of Club Ami were negotiating around this project with great care and generosity the delicate puzzles of the past and the present, history and urgency, and the tensions around representation. My contribution was the Big Book, a device that could simply function as a series of surfaces to accommodate an archive of old and new work of various members. It was made of repurposed electrical conduits, textiles, caster wheels and wood.
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