Sadly, a great new À LOUER installation by UMA is to be short lived. So hurry over to St.Laurent this week-end to view the multiple identities of artist J.J.LEVINE In her photographs, she stages the same models dressed differently. In one photo, the girl is dressed like a man, and the man like a girl. In another, right beside it, their identities are not switched – hence the title: SWITCH.
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Artist Vicky Sabourin’s work is up at 4255 rue St. Laurent. Another À LOUER/ UMA installation, the brainchild of André Cornellier, her photographs enhance an empty For Rent window space. (Get it? À Louer?)
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RUN. Don’t walk, to see the latest À LOUER, the brainchild of photographer, artist, visionary André Cornellier. What is it you ask? In For Rent (ie: À Louer) windows throughout the City of Montréal, André installs fabulous photographs. This serves two purposes: one – it beautifies an often sad, and dusty locale, and two – the most important – it showcases young, upcoming, and very talented Montreal artists. One of Cornellier’s installations, is now up. ALAIN LEFORTs night butterflies – so much more poetic than moths – is stunning. 
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UMA, La Maison de l’image et de la photographie, had – and has – a great idea, riffing on the ‘À Louer’ signs you see around town – possibly more to come after yesterday, but I digress. Founder and director of UMA, André Cornellier puts art in those spaces. He goes in with his team, cleans the windows (no charge to the retailer..how great is that?), then installs large scale photographs of emerging artists – at no cost to them. His projects are supported by the local arrondissments, pleased to see the beautifications of their area. 
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