Have a “Piece O’Cake”

Piece O’ Cake will be on from March 3rd to the 31st at Le Cagibi at 5490 St. Laurent Montreal.

Curator Sacha Miller hopes that her first time curating an exhibit in the Art Matters festival will be a piece of cake, revealing the not so subtle psychological inspiration for the title of her exhibit.

While Christo and Jeane-Claude are busy covering national monuments in silk, Emily Comeau is knitting tea-cozies for household objects, like a bowl of fruit, in an exhibit she calls Dutch Still Life. Insert-your-own-joke about biting into wool.

Elise Pineda delves into the cream of 1980s television culture with a piece that exemplifies her love-hate relationship with the Smurfs. Her Smurf Village of Happiness “could easily be read as a celebration of cheese” says Pineda, who remains ambivalent as to whether it constitutes a critique or a monument to pop culture and commercial nostalgia.

Catherine Tremblay has found a more fitting form of nostalgia with a series of photographs entitled Playing Memory. Valérie Boxer could have a hit show on her hands if she ever contacts the executives at Nickelodeon. Entitled Domestic Oracle, her series of drawings explore how people ascribe human characteristics to animals. But Boxer outdoes them all by ascribing Chihuahuas and other small furry animals with shamanistic powers.

Piece O’Cake is being held on behalf of The Void magazine, which is also sponsoring the exhibit’s vernissage. Miller hopes to recruit new staff members for the magazine at the show. Those of you who might be interested in shacking up with The Void should definitely check out their vernissage at Le Cagibi on March 13th from 7-11 pm, which will also feature musical guest stars The Zardozians.