Blouin Division

Our CONDUCTOR presentation brings together four Indigenous artists from our roster: Renée Condo, Caroline Monnet, Nadia Myre, and Nico Williams. Three of these artists – Condo, Myre, and Williams – engage beadwork in distinct and innovative ways, experimenting with scale, materiality, and meaning. Condo’s large-scale “beadwork” paintings draw on Mi’gmaq concepts of Mntu (energy or spirit) as a means of revitalizing Indigenous knowledge, alongside her interest in wave–particle duality, entanglement, and superposition. In contrast, Williams works at an intimate scale, examining how relationships to objects, place, and language shape lived experience. Through meticulous beadwork, he translates everyday, accessible objects to explore continuity between past and present, cross-cultural exchange, and ancestral knowledge.  Myre is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, photography, video, performance, and installation. Central to her practice are questions of belonging, decolonization, and communication. Her hand-beaded tapestries interrogate the history of the medium, its entanglement with colonial narratives, and its relationship to Canadian landscape traditions. Monnet’s practice examines colonial systems of land control and their impacts on Indigenous displacement, reserve life, and the destruction of ancestral territories. Employing raw construction materials such as tar paper, Tyvek, and membrane insulation, she creates works that are both stark and poetic, underscoring the ongoing precarity faced by Indigenous communities in Canada.  Together, the booth highlights points of connection across these practices while emphasizing their distinct perspectives and material approaches. Blouin Division sees this as a meaningful opportunity to share Canadian Indigenous art with an international audience.

Formed in 2020 through the merger of Galerie Division (founded in 2010) and Galerie René Blouin (founded in 1986), Blouin Division is among Canada’s most prominent commercial galleries. Committed to promoting the careers of leading Canadian contemporary artists and bringing their work to an international audience, the gallery works with a roster of 44 artists. Their work is exhibited in the gallery’s spaces in Montreal and Toronto, as well as in New York City through its association with Arsenal Contemporary Art, alongside regular participation in major international art fairs.

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