Eve Tagny (Montreal) is a multidisciplinary artist working with photography, video, writing and environmentally focused installation. Her practice is focused on mending traumatic disruptions through nature. Her work has been shown in Canada and abroad. Her photo book Lost Love, was the recipient of an Honourable Mention from the Burtynsky Grant and has been on display as part of her first solo exhibition at Never Apart Centre in Montreal. She also was shortlisted for the 2018 Contemporary African Photography prize (CAP) and was the recipient of the MFON Legacy Grant. Tagny holds a BFA in Film Production from Concordia University and a certificate in Journalism from the University of Montreal. Image: Eve Tagny, Premonition, photograph, 2014.Find out more
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Live Performance A landscape’s spine by Florencia Sosa Rey and Eve Tagny Saturday, November 20th, 2021 1 – 1:30 PM (Duration of performance: approx. 30 minutes) Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw St. Following her practice’s ongoing investigations into gardens as sites of grief and renewal, Eve Tagny along with collaborator Florencia Sosa Rey has choreographed a performance as a closing gesture for the exhibition You sit in a garden (curated by Chris Andrews). Tracing parallels between a plant’s roots and our body’s spines, the performers explore the entanglements of leisure, respite, care as well as privilege, exclusion and labor that play out in our gardens and landscapes. “If we go “to” nature, we are in fact going into ourselves.” This is a free,…Find out more
Alex Jacobs-Blum, Curtiss Randolph, Camille Rojas, Eve Tagny Curated by Liz Ikiriko April 27–June 2, 2019 Opening Reception and Curator’s Tour with Liz Ikiriko Saturday, April 27th, 1–3pm “An archive, but not an atlas: the point here is not to take the world upon one’s shoulders, but to crouch down to the earth, and dig.” — Allan Sekula An Archive, But Not An Atlas is a group exhibition that explores personal and social histories as they are unearthed through movement, gesture, language, and land. Four emerging artists address unconscious memory as it is embodied across generations and geographies. Through photography, performance, and film, the artists’ knowledge is rooted in observing subtleties expressed in familial, domestic, or cultural locations.Find out more