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May 7th >
June 13th 2026
At ELEKTRA Gallery
Tuesday – Saturday
12:00 – 5:00 pm
Free entrance
Opening
Thursday, May 7th
from 5:00 pm to 08:00 pm
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Remembering the Things I Don’t Know
Samuel Graveline
It all began with a small box filled with photographic prints. A few faces, a flock of birds taking off at the beach. The documentation of a journey that could have been a missionary’s stay. The photographs offer themselves to the gaze, yet refuse to submit to it. For the artist, looking is not enough: they must feel to truly see.
Samuel Graveline presents a poetic installation here, juxtaposing digitized 8mm film and silk prints. As images proliferate, he slows the pace, almost re-educating the way we look. Between revelation and opacity, his handmade devices layer materiality and veils. Analog and digital waltz together, where time, stretched long, becomes an ally rather than a rival—where the origins of what is seen remain a secret.
Excerpt from the exhibition text.
Curator: Maude Hénaire
Photo credit: Samuel Graveline
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Samuel Graveline
Artist. Lives and work in Montreal.
For several years now, Samuel Graveline has been shaping his artistic practice within Montreal’s vibrant art scene. Focusing primarily on image and installation as mediums, he graduated with distinction from a visual and media arts program and is currently pursuing a Master’s in environmental design. His work has been showcased in numerous exhibitions, including those at Arprim, Livart, Projet Casa, and the Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie. Graveline’s artistic approach is driven by the semantic and pictorial affects of images—as well as their modes of existence—exploring the evocative potential and materiality inherent in the photographic condition.
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Maude Hénaire
Curator. Lives and work in Montreal.
With a background in art history, Maude Hénaire serves as the Director of Galerie B-312. She led the artistic direction for the early seasons of DRAC art actuel and contributed to the programming of recent editions of MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain. As an independent curator, she curated exhibitions such as Et dis-moi: why is the past tense always longer? (Stewart Hall Art Gallery, 2023), La cloche des apparitions (Nicolas Ranellucci, AXENEO7, 2014), and Cadrer le tout (Galerie Trois Points, 2013). More recently, she began to reconnect with writing, inspired by an invitation from VU Photo for the Éclaireurs·euses project (2023), for which she penned a short essay on the photographic work of Velibor Božović. Her curatorial and critical practice is deeply shaped by themes of impermanence, memory, and the inherent poetic power of artworks.
Credits
Exhibition
Maude Hénaire Curation and text
Darby Minott Bradford Translation
Bon Matin Studio Exhibition set-up
Atelier Clark Wooden structures production
Atelier Circulaire Texts printing
ELEKTRA Gallery
Alain Thibault Artistic and General Director, Curator
Mathis André Communications Manager
Rosalie Mimeault-Morency Mediation