September 2017
Leonard Cohen: Rituals of Absence
The Museum of Jewish Montreal is excited to announce the vernissage to launch our year-long exhibit series, Rituals//Fragments at the Museum on Thursday, September 28 at 7:00 PM. The inaugural exhibit, Leonard Cohen: Rituals of Absence, features photographs by Montreal-based artist Morgane CG. Her images document the impromptu memorial of flowers, candles, tea, and oranges left on Cohen’s Plateau doorstep last November. In the wake of his passing, admirers from across Montreal congregated there to pay their respects and…
Find out more »November 2017
Miss Mitzvah
Miss Mitzvah is an ongoing interactive installation and storytelling project which explores Bat Mitzvahs and coming-of-age rituals within a consumer-driven culture. Collecting narratives from young women in New York and Montreal through hands-on workshops and interviews, this first installation of the collection at the Museum of Jewish Montreal consists of an archive of real Bat Mitzvah dresses, invitations, photographs, and other genuine relics from various simchas, which we invite you to explore. About the Artist Zoe Penina Baker is…
Find out more »January 2018
1001 lights
Scintillements | 1001 Lights consists of individually documented Shabbat candle-lighting ceremonies playing in syncopation with each other. Forming the crux of the film’s visuals is a fluid hand gesture choreography in response to these individual ceremonies. The 15-minute piece is projected on a loop in the late afternoon and evening hours onto the street-level windows of the Museum of Jewish Montreal, located in the heart of the Plateau at the corner of boul. St. Laurent and Duluth. During the…
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