Artist Turns to Cigarette

Because it is known that artists have a weak knee for that little white stick

May your lungs inflate with air, and tobacco stain the lining. May the stench of smoke linger on your clothes like the perfume I used to wear. May you carry them in your pocket for the sake of nostalgia. And may artists light them and create the most wonderful art, as they hold death between their teeth.
          Because it is known that artists have a weak knee for that little white stick.

Through the exhibition Artist Turns to Cigarette, Bella Laflamme, Chris Glabb and Marguerite Morin collaborate closely by curating their own (and each other’s) work, by working on a series together in which they each interpret the same image, and finally, by creating a large collaborative painting that each artist helped create. Their exhibition took place in Gallery 115 from February 26th to March 11th, 2024. 

Artist Turns to Cigarette is an exhibition that inhabits the nicotine-stained world of the artist. Laflamme, Glabb and Morin brought to life the stereotype of the smoking artist and highlighted with humour the cigarette as an artistic symbol. Viewers were brought into a yellowed room with tobacco wafting through the air and a television droning in the background.

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