Fall/Winter 2026–2027 Exhibitions at PHI

With Turn or Burn, Jean-François Bouchard’s first museum-scale exhibition, and ANTHEMS, Stephanie Comilang’s most comprehensive presentation to date and her first exhibition in Quebec, PHI presents two perspectives on the narratives, beliefs, and invisible forces that shape our societies.

Through distinct approaches—one documentary and installation-based, the other speculative and immersive—the two artists explore systems of belief, collective narratives, and invisible networks that shape the way we understand the world.

Jean-François Bouchard, Turn or Burn (detail), 2026. 7-channel video installation. 10 min (loop). Courtesy of the artist.

Jean-François Bouchard: Turn or Burn

October 28, 2026 – March 14, 2027
Public Opening: October 27, 2026, 5:30pm – 8pm
PHI, 407 Saint-Pierre Street, Montréal

For his first museum-scale exhibition, Jean-François Bouchard’s Turn or Burn brings together a series of new works that document his encounters with evangelical street preachers in the United States of America. The project examines how their words and actions replay, with growing intensity, the tensions between faith, performance, and politics in public space.

By meeting with these preachers and mobilizing a range of formal approaches—photography, video, and installation—Bouchard continues to explore contemporary culture’s marginal areas. In doing so, he questions how beliefs and ideologies are socially perpetuated between individuals and the systems they are embedded in.

Curator: Daniel Fiset, PHI.

About Jean-François Bouchard

Jean-François Bouchard is a visual artist whose practice explores communities and individuals beyond dominant social frameworks. Situated between documentary and conceptual inquiry, his work examines marginal and subcultural worlds as systems that generate their own forms of meaning and belonging. His projects have been exhibited in Canada, the United States, France, Korea, Mexico, and Cuba, including at Arsenal Contemporary Art, and featured in The Guardian, The Washington Post, Stern, and the British Journal of Photography. His recent book project The New Cubans was launched at Perrotin Store New York and published by PowerHouse Books. In 2026, The New York Times acquired and released his film co-directed with Olivier Côté, La Retaguardia, as part of its Op-Docs series. Bouchard lives in Montréal & New York.

Stephanie Comilang, Search for Life II (detail), 2025. Installation view at Sharjah Biennial 16, Sharjah, 2025. Photo: Danko Stjepanovic. Courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation.

Stephanie Comilang: ANTHEMS

October 28, 2026 – March 14, 2027
Public Opening: October 27, 2026, 5:30pm – 8pm
PHI, 451 & 465 Saint-Jean Street, Montréal

Through a layered and multifaceted approach, Stephanie Comilang poetically humanizes the weighty subject of how global flows of capital impact real lives. Through the cultivation of intimacy, Comilang creates deeply engaging single- and multi-channel video installations that also include VR, textile works and 3D-printed objects. This is the artist’s most comprehensive exhibition to date, and the first time her work is being presented in Quebec.

Broadly defined, anthems inspire and connect people together in a spirit of community. In this way, each of Stephanie Comilang’s works is an anthem. They honour the cultures, histories, and lives of courageous individuals brought together by invisible yet extraordinarily powerful forces, stirring up a sense of kinship in the viewer that transcends geography and nationality.

Curator: Cheryl Sim, PHI.

About Stephanie Comilang

Stephanie Comilang is a Filipina-Canadian artist living and working in Berlin. With a focus on the migrant experience capable of reducing people to anonymous individuals living and working in unstable elsewhere, Comilang considers the growing disparity between the human and the global. She creates stories whose narratives are driven by multiple voices and points of view both human and more-than-human, to consider how culture and society engage with such salient aspects of the globalized world. The intimate narrative and filmic devices Comilang employs cause her films to fit not so neatly into either category of that hybrid definition—they feel too possible to be sci-fi, too close to be documentary, and instead carry something of the imagistic epistolary or confessional. Her work has been shown at the Tate Modern, Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, Sharjah Biennial, Hawai’i Triennial, Haus Der Kunst, and Tai Kwun. In 2019, she was awarded the Sobey Art Award, Canada’s most prestigious art prize.

PHI gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and the Conseil des arts de Montréal for Stephanie Comilang: ANTHEMS, as well as La Presse, the media partner for its Fall/Winter 2026–2027 exhibitions.

About PHI

Founded and directed by Phoebe Greenberg in Montréal, PHI is a multidisciplinary cultural hub at the intersection of art, technology, and music. Focused on the future of art and its audiences, PHI champions radical ideas through collective experiences, social engagement, and audience interactivity.

PHI offers a dynamic and diverse program that includes exhibitions, performances, installations, immersive experiences and artist-in-residence programs, fostering unexpected encounters between artists and audiences. Committed to creation, dissemination, and support for contemporary artistic practices, PHI stands as a leading cultural destination in the heart of Old Montréal.

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Image Descriptions:
1. Black-and-white close-up portrait of a man with his mouth wide open, appearing to shout, against a black background.
2. A dark silhouette of a person on a curtain of illuminated blue beads.