Ritual and Avatars of Africa
Thu, Feb 19
|372 Rue Sainte-Catherine O
Awaken your spirit: a masked body ritual Enter a space where memory, heritage, and presence converge. Through the interplay of body, mask, and light, ancestral energies awaken, and the invisible becomes visible.
TIME & LOCATION
Feb 19, 2026, 5:00 PM – 8:30 PM
372 Rue Sainte-Catherine O, 372 Rue Sainte-Catherine O, Montréal, QC, Canada
ABOUT THE EVENT
This exhibition brings together two artists, in photography and painting, around the body as a space of ritual and memory.
Through gestures, postures and tensions, the body becomes the site of an inhabited presence, traversed by heritage and the sacred.
The mask, far from being a mere cultural object, comes alive through contact with the body. It extends the being, reveals an invisible memory, and transforms the figure into a mediator between flesh and spirit.
The encounter between painting and photography captures that fragile moment when ritual takes shape. The body does not represent, it embodies. Between past and present, human and ancestral, the exhibition reveals what remains unspoken.
This encounter between painting and photography brings together:
Julien Lubanoa-Kandolo, painter