a communion of art | programming 2003-2004

communion: Sharing, participation; fellowship…
art: Skill, especially human skill as opposed to nature; skillful execution as an object in itself; fine arts, those in which mind and imagination are chiefly concerned…

Communion implies a union of two or more persons, a meeting place, a place for sharing. For artists working in the field of contemporary or conceptual art, communion incorporates the different approaches which all meet in a tension, a shared intention: that art finds its form and is given life. Once created, the work has the potential to commune with life, with those who share it, with movement, with beauty, with death… A communion that rediscovers the magical and the sacred, and that is even more moving when the public is present to interact with it.

This season’s programme is devoted to this notion via a series of shows which we hope and trust you will find indeed engaging— communicative. Welcome to a communion of art, a communion with art.

Danielle Tremblay, Director