Sylvie Readman et Denis Rioux | Porosities Exhibition

January 17 to February 21, 2023, the Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle will host the exhibition Porosities, by the artists Sylvie Readman et Denis Rioux (artist and curator).

The opening of the exhibit is scheduled for Thursday, January 19, 2023, at 5 p.m., but we are still monitoring the COVID situation carefully. We encourage everyone to wear a mask.

Porosities was born of the meeting of two artists who, each in their own way, are interested in materiality, space, and light as primal conditions of photographic experience. Conjoining their voices, this project aims to relate their reflective territories and to create points of contact from which the images allow themselves to be permeated by a seemingly analog spirit of openness and balance between what is given to see and to think.


Sylvie Readman’s contribution revisits and updates the classic pictorial theme of vanitas, in the context of which photographic elements make up a reflective fable. Made up of evanescent landscapes, of memorials or funerary spaces, and references to long temporal cycles, this fable, haunted by the imaginary of the camera obscura, conjures up a set of open meditations on the passage of time, on the finitude of human existence, and on the complexity of our relationship to nature.


Denis Rioux explores the photographic as a distinct form of appropriation, along with the nature of the experience it involves. Is works are an operator that fosters thinking about space, the visible, and materiality, outside of what enables the naming of things. They give an account of the primal, tautological experience of the appearing in light, highlighting the contexture of objects in favor of their complex and entropic materiality.

Located at 67 Beechwood Avenue (2nd floor), in Vanier, the Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday to Saturday.