Maria Ezcurra

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Passing


Passant / Pasando

2020-2024
Complexe Guy-Favreau, Art Souterrain 2022, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Cuisine ta ville : Le grand voyage, Place des Festivals, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Passing has been presented in various contexts. This installation invites visitors to walk through the space among flying birds. The comforting presence of these silhouettes contrasts with the rawness of the deconstructed shoes of which they are made. This piece incorporates both the resilience and vulnerability of migrant populations, exploring and revealing the sometimes invisible and often problematic connections of the migratory phenomenon to environmental, economic, social, political, and personal processes. Responding to the cross-border dimension of the phenomenon of human and natural migration, this installation reviews and reveals the complexity of the geopolitics of memory, displacement and transnational citizenship. For Art Souterrain, Passing was installed in the Guy Favreau Complex, next to the Passport Office, during the passport crisis that hit Montreal in the summer of 2022, where people were forced to wait in line for hours, or even days, without obtaining the document, essential for travel.

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Maria Ezcurra | Festival Art Souterrain 2022
Crise des passeports: encore une journée de pur chaos | JDM (journaldemontreal.com)
En passant, encore, ATSA - Parcours d'installations et d'expositions à ciel ouvert, 2021
Le travail en soi/The work itself/El trabajo de uno, L’Imagier (2020): Le travail en soi imagier (limagier.qc.ca)
Passing / Passant / Pasando, 2022
Complexe Guy-Favreau, Art Souterrain 2022, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Installation: Deconstructed Shoes

Photo: Thierry du Bois
Passing / Passant / Pasando, 2022
Complexe Guy-Favreau, Art Souterrain 2022, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Installation: Deconstructed Shoes

Photo: Thierry du Bois
Passing / Passant / Pasando, 2022
Complexe Guy-Favreau, Art Souterrain 2022, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Installation: Deconstructed Shoes

Photo: Thierry du Bois
Passing / Passant / Pasando, 2022
Complexe Guy-Favreau, Art Souterrain, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Installation: Deconstructed Shoes

Photo: Maria Ezcurra

Passing, 2020, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
Curator: Nuria Carton de Grammont Installation: 80 Deconstructed Shoes

Photo: Maria Ezcurra
Passing, 2020, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
Curator: Nuria Carton de Grammont Installation: 80 Deconstructed Shoes

Photo: Maria Ezcurra
Passing, 2020, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
Curator: Nuria Carton de Grammont Installation: 80 Deconstructed Shoes

Photo: Maria Ezcurra
Passing, 2020, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
Curator: Nuria Carton de Grammont Installation: 80 Deconstructed Shoes

Photo: Maria Ezcurra
Passing, 2020, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
Curator: Nuria Carton de Grammont Installation: 80 Deconstructed Shoes

Photo: Maria Ezcurra
En passant, encore, 2021 Cuisine ta ville : Le grand voyage / ATSA Place des Festivals, Montreal, Quebec
Curator: Nicolas Rivard Installation: Deconstructed Shoes

Photo: Maria Ezcurra
En passant, encore, 2021 Cuisine ta ville : Le grand voyage / ATSA Place des Festivals, Montreal, Quebec
Curator: Nicolas Rivard Installation: Deconstructed Shoes

Photo: Maria Ezcurra
En passant, encore, 2021 Cuisine ta ville : Le grand voyage / ATSA Place des Festivals, Montreal, Quebec
Curator: Nicolas Rivard Installation: Deconstructed Shoes

Photo: Maria Ezcurra
En passant, encore, 2021 Cuisine ta ville : Le grand voyage / ATSA Place des Festivals, Montreal, Quebec
Curator: Nicolas Rivard Installation: Deconstructed Shoes

Photo: Maria Ezcurra
En passant, encore, 2021 Cuisine ta ville : Le grand voyage / ATSA Place des Festivals, Montreal, Quebec
Curator: Nicolas Rivard Installation: Deconstructed Shoes

Photo: Maria Ezcurra