March 3th - 25th 2018

Labor Improbus

Festival Art Souterrain - Montreal

This 10th edition of the Art Souterrain Festival features a theme that is both universal and individual, historical yet more topical than ever : work.
Be it paid or on a volunteer basis, done as a vocation or to pay the bills, white collar, blue collar, regulated or abusive, it governs the rhythm of our lives and defines our social standing. How work is perceived and experienced varies according to country, culture and economic conditions. The artists on display this year have attempted to illustrate this diversity, whether through their origins or by offering a perspective that is at times poetic or humorous, but often critical.


With Edmund Alleyn, Fortner Anderson, Mel Arsenault, Matilda Aslizadeh, Jan Banning, Steve Bates, Philippe Battikha, Johan Bävman, Marie-Eve Beaulieu, Sophie-Anne Bélisle, Patrick Bérubé, Marie-Claire Blais, Caroline Boileau, Nans Bortuzzo, Olivia Boudreau, Mathieu Cardin, Alejandro Cartagena, Sébastien Cliche, Claude Closky, Marie Cool & Fabio Balducci, Carole Condé & Beveridge Karl, Louis-Philippe Côté, Marc-Antoine Côté, Raphaël Dallaporta, Alexandre David, Francisco de la Barra, Dries Depoorter, Mathieu Deschênes, Jannick Deslauriers, Adriana Disman, Naomi Dodds, Pierre Durette, Chun Hua Catherine Dong, Erika Dueke, Antje Ehmann (& Harun Farocki), Eliane Excoffier, Jean Baptiste Farkas, Stanley Février, Brian Finke, Lucian Freud, Karine Giboulo, Sally Gorham, Michel Goulet, Maxime Goldstyn, Isabelle Guimond, Maggy Hamel-Metsos, Adad Hannah, Nelson Henricks, Ciprian Homorodean, Alexandre Huard, Raphaël J. Dostie & Terence Chotard, Babis Kandilaptis, Marc Antoine K. Phaneuf, Olga Kisseleva, Moridja Kitenge Banza, Harold Klunder, Kitty Krauss, Hugh Kretschmer, Stéphane La Rue, Alexis Lavoie, Claude Labrèche-Lemay, Emmanuel Laflamme, Florent Lamouroux, Martin Le Chevallier, Catherine Lescarbeau, Sara Létourneau et Magali Baribeau-Marchand, Elsa Maillot, Kelly Mark, Carolina Mayorga, Adrian Melis, Mindy Yan Miller, Allison Moore, Nøne Futbol Club, Alexandre Nunes, Cheryl Pagurek, Martin Parr, Paolo Patrizi, John Pilson, Dulce Pinzón, Carlo Polidoro Lopez, Jessica Peters, Julien Prévieux, Alana Riley, Guillaume Saur, Laura Simard-Lemaire, Mark Stebbins, János Sugár, Pilvi Takala, Laurence Thériault-Lainé, Jacqueline Van de Geer, Philippe Vaz Coatelant, Megan Young, Johannes Zits

Nøne Futbol Club