Transforming and enhancing Montreal’s underground network through art. The Art Souterrain Festival highlights the actors of the contemporary art world, the artists, as well as the architecture and the cultural heritage of the city …
Heather Davis has curated several works that speculate on what the future may bring. Some visions are strange, others are full of humour. And then there are eerily beautiful projects, like this one by David Ụzọchukwu, a Berlin-based photographer who's previously collaborated with FKA Twigs and Pharrell. The images appearing at Art Souterrain are digitally altered photos from an ongoing body of work, a series set in a water world inhabited by Black men and women. The people there have grown fins and scales — and still others have morphed into humanoid corals. "You're not quite sure what sort of temporality you're inhabiting, whether this is the past or the present or the future," says Davis. "It allows space for a radical imagination of how things could be different
