Chloë Lum & Yannick Desranleau at the Owens Art Gallery

Chloë Lum & Yannick Desranleau, I’m No Longer That Person I Once Was, 2024, video still, Courtesy of the Artists

Chloë Lum & Yannick Desranleau: I’m No Longer That Person I Once Was

October 28 – November 10, 2024
Online and in the Picture Window from dusk to dawn
Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University

Chloë Lum and Yannick Desranleau are installation artists who have worked collaboratively since 2000. Their multidisciplinary artistic practice encompasses video, performance, sculpture, sound, text, and photography, and it is rooted in the theatrical and choreographic and examines the slippery and complex relationships between bodies and inanimate objects. Over the last few years, these subjects have been examined through the lens of chronic illness.

I’m No Longer That Person I Once Was (2024) is a performance-video about the process of transforming one’s self permanently through theatrical gestures and costuming as a daily ritual. Written mostly in Sackville, New Brunswick, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the text driving this piece emerged from the strangeness caused by the sudden isolation of the shutdowns, the social norms of distanced communication with collaborators, and the anxiety that came with this so-called “new normal.” The work further developed through the artists’ re-examination of their habits and material realities and the sudden, yet subtle sensorial shift in perception that brought a more intimate engagement with the environment.

Chloë Lum & Yannick Desranleau
I’m No Longer That Person I Once Was (sketches 1, 6, 10, and 11), 2024
HD video, colour, sound; 9:24.
Soundtrack: Dominique Alexander
Colour grading: Josh Sherrett

Chloë Lum and Yannick Desranleau are installation artists who work across video, performance, sculpture, sound, text, and photography. They have exhibited widely, notably at the Esker Foundation, Calgary; the Center for Books and Paper Arts, Columbia College, Chicago; the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; the Kunsthalle Wien; BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art; Whitechapel Project Space, London; the University of Texas, Austin; the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown; and the Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto. Lum and Desranleau are also known on the international music scene as co-founders of the avant-rock group AIDS Wolf, for whom they produced award-winning concert posters under the name Séripop. Their work is in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. They are based in amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton) and have worked collaboratively since 2000.

The artists would like to acknowledge the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Pierre Lassonde School of Fine Arts at Mount Allison University, the Owens Art Gallery, and Koyama Provides. They would also like to thank Emily Falvey, Erik Edson, and James Anderson

We would like to acknowledge that the Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University, is located within the traditional territory of Mi’kma’ki, the unceded ancestral homelands of the Mi’kmaq. Our relationship and our privilege to live on this territory was agreed upon in the Peace and Friendship Treaties of 1725 to 1752. Because of this treaty relationship, it is to be acknowledged that we are all Treaty People and have a responsibility to respect this territory.

Owens Art Gallery
Mount Allison University
61 York Street Sackville, NB, E4L 1E1 • 506-364-2574
owens@mta.ca
www.owensartgallery.com
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Monday to Friday, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Saturday and Sunday, 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Admission is Free

The Owens is partially accessible. The stairs from the entrance nearest the University Chapel have a handrail. There is also ramp access at this entrance, however, the ramp is steep. The stairs to the entrance off York Street have a handrail, but no ramp, and are covered with temporary wood treads. The main floor of the Owens is wheelchair accessible. Our second-floor gallery and gendered bathrooms are located in the basement and are not accessible. Two flights of stairs lead to each of these floors. LED lights are used throughout the building. The Owens welcomes guide dogs and other service animals. The closest accessible parking spaces are located on York Street across from the Owens. For detailed information on venue access, please visit our Accessibility page. If you would like to visit the Owens at a quieter time, or when all staff and visitors are masked, private visits can be arranged from 9:00-10:00 am on weekdays.

If you have any questions about your visit, please email owens@mta.ca or call (506) 364-2574.