The exhibition presented Roubert’s urban fauna maps as well as photographs of the events accompanying them: meals, walks, panels.
View (left to right) of Montréal’s “Dirt is Matter Out of Place” leaflet with map, Toronto’s “Flock” leaflet and “Pigeon Panel” cone and New York City’s “A Pigeon’s Perspective”.
View of the “Shanghai Urban Fauna Project” with photographs from the event and (left to right) the map used to pin the various pigeon coops found in the city, notes from interviews with pigeon breeders, the newspaper article reviewing the event, the final map and its original published format.
Layne Gardener’s photographs of beauty pageant pigeons were included, referring to the installation “Dirt is Matter Out of Place”, first presented in 2013 at Articule.
View of Roubert’s “Grey Matter” with the projection of Université de Montréal’s falcon nesting box projected in the background.
View of the Université de Montréal’s falcon nesting box projected in the background, with Roubert’s “Grey Matter” sculptures in the foreground.
Round table discussion "Urban Captures, Visibility and Media Speciesism" with Chloé Roubert, Eve Belisle, Vincent Lavoie, Christina Contandriopoulos, Sophie Dubeau Chicoine
Montréal’s SBC gallery presents a retrospective of Chloé Roubert’s pigeon research and urban fauna projects, The live projection of Université de Montréal’s falcon nesting box in the space offers a contrast to the analytical approach of her maps. The exhibition hopes to articulate a dialogue between art, anthropology, citizen-research, science production, urbanism and environmental problematics.
Curated by students in art history at UQAM, under the direction of Christina Contandriopoulos and Valeria Tellez Niemeyer, it was accompanied by a Round table discussion: "Urban Captures, Visibility and Media Speciesism" (with Chloé Roubert, Eve Belisle, Vincent Lavoie, Christina Contandriopoulos, Sophie Dubeau Chicoine), a podcast: "Feeding of pigeons is prohibited" (with Guillaume Éthier, Chloé Roubert, Christina Contandriopoulos and Béatrice Poitras)
The episode is available here