Martine Viale

Martine Viale

Intra Muros II

Montreal-based artist Martine Viale has performed her work across Canada and abroad. The work she presents at Visualeyez, Intra Muros II, begins with a performance of six hours, repeated and reduced by one hour each successive day. Viale’s work focuses on the divide between loneliness and solitude through a combination of body motions and visual associations.

Performances

  • Monday September 10, 13:00–19:00 at Latitude 53 Contemporary Visual Culture (10248 106 Street)
  • Tuesday September 11, 13:00–18:00 at Latitude 53
  • Wednesday September 12, 13:00—17:00 at Latitude 53
  • Thursday September 13, 17:00–20:00 at Latitude 53
  • Friday September 14, 14:30–16:30 at Latitude 53
  • Saturday September 15, 14:30–16:30 at Latitude 53
  • Sunday September 15, 14:30–15:30 at Latitude 53

Artist’s Statement

My work deals with cycles of time and metamorphosis. Challenging the body’s endurance through duration, I am interested in suggesting multiple stages of working rather than a completed product. Active in performance, action art and photography, my work focuses on process-action and the corporeality of space and time that allow for simultaneous multidimensional developments producing installations grounded in performance. The ideas of transformation through time and accumulation play a major role in the creation of each work. My body becomes a “doing body” engaged in creating, layering and collecting traces of actions, which progressively transform the space and myself.

Bio

Martine Viale is a Montreal based performance artist. She has presented her work in numerous performance art festivals, galeries and in situ context in Montreal, Viva Art Action!, Centre des arts actuels Skol, Québec, Rencontres Internationales d’art performance de Québec (RIAP), Le Lieu, Québec and Canada, FADO Performance Art Center, 7a*11d International Festival of Performance, Toronto, Live Biennial of Performance Art, Western Front, B.C. As well as internationally in Brazil, Chicago, New York, Boston, The Philippines, France, Belgium, Serbia, The National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, Scotland, Contenedores Muestra Internacional de arte de accion de Sevilla, Spain and 4th International Performance festival Odense. Denmark.