Art Now! Panel Discussion: Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens
Art Now! Panel Discussion
Featuring Richard Ibghy, Marilou Lemmens, Tony Weiss, moderated by Dr. Helen Gregory
Join us for a panel discussion hosted on Zoom in partnership with the Western University Department of Visual Arts’ Art Now! Speakers Series on Thursday, September 24 at 7:00 pm.
Moderated by McIntosh Gallery Curator, Dr. Helen Gregory, Theatre from the Jungle artists Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens and Associate Professor of Geography, Tony Weiss will discuss the exhibition presented at McIntosh Gallery as it relates to themes of industrial agriculture and socio-economic, cross-border labour issues. A Zoom link will be made available closer to the event date.
About Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens
Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens live and work in Durham-Sud, Quebec, Canada. Most recently, their work was presented in solo exhibitions at the Bemis Center for Contemorary Arts, Omaha (2019), VOLT, Visningsrommet USF Gallery, Bergen (2019), the Audian Gallery, SFU Galleries (2018), Agnes Etherington Art Centre (2017), Jane Lombard Gallery, New York (2017), Owens Art Gallery (2017), the International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York (2016), YYZ Artists’ Outlet (2016), Esker Foundation (2016), Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery (2016), VOX (2014), Trinity Square Video (2014), and Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles (2012). They have participated in a number of group exhibitions including the 1st Fiskars Biennale, Finland (2019), Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (2018), Columbus Museum of Art (2018), 2nd OFF-Biennale, Budapest (2017), Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (2017), XIII Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador (2016), Blackwood Gallery (2016), Art Gallery of Guelph (2016), Postmasters Gallery (2016), 14th Istanbul Biennial (2015), La Biennale de Montréal (2014), Manif d’art 7: Quebec City Biennial (2014), Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway (2013), Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow (2012) and 10th Sharjah Biennial (2011). Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens have published four artist's books and their writings have been published in books, catalogues and magazines. A comprehensive monograph about their practice as well as a book dedicated to one of their works, The Prophets, will be published in 2020. They have been awarded the Prix Giverny Capital in 2019 and the Research Fellowship of the Grantham Foundation for the Arts and the Environment in 2020.
image credit: Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens, Banding Young Eastern Loggerhead Shrikes in the Carden Alvar, from the series The Violence of Care, 2019, HD Video. Production Still.
The Art Now Speakers’ Series is a component of ongoing academic offerings in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University. The Fall 2020 Art Now Speakers' Series will be offered online, via Zoom Webinar.
This series is generously supported by The Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the McIntosh Gallery.
