Party's Over
Rivalry Projects, BUFFALO, NY, USA, 2022
Rivalry Projects is pleased to present Party’s Over, an exhibition of seven contemporary artists whose practices inhabit the gauzy space between reality and hyperbole. Featuring work by Marie-Lou Desmeules, Julia Dzwonkoski, Raul Gonzalez III, Erik Hanson, George Horner, Daniel Arthur Mendoza and Ralph Steadman.
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Maricón Perdido
Barcelona, Spain, 2020
This exhibition was commissioned by Turner Broadcasting and is featured in Bob Pop's TNT & HBO tv series entitled "Maricón Perdido" (2021).
Façade
Montreal, Canada, 2020
FAÇADE is an interactive video installation that plunges us into the heart of a strange narrative in which the videos created by LouRie challenge us with their strangeness and singularity. Using the front of a building, the story is revealed through the deceptive, made-up and "surgical" appearance of her X-Metic surgery's characters. Imagined during the lockdown, Façade offers the spectator a reflection on the gap between what he aspires to be and what he cannot achieve.
This urban installation is the first creation of collective Slacheurs, of which LouRie is co-founder and member, and is a collaboration with HUB Studio, which signs the interactivity that consists in animating the videos when there is movement on the street.
This urban installation is the first creation of collective Slacheurs, of which LouRie is co-founder and member, and is a collaboration with HUB Studio, which signs the interactivity that consists in animating the videos when there is movement on the street.
Interfilm Festival
35th Edition - The Long Night Of Weird Shorts, Volksbühne, Berlin, Germany, 2019
French Canadian artist Marie-Lou Desmeules transforms a therapy session into a riotous, full-bodied display in this film from Los Hermanos Polo. The artist, whose work uses the body as a canvas, metamorphoses the forms of her subjects—with daubs of paint and roughly applied plastics—into grotesque, colourful portraits of the rich and the famous, from Donald Trump to John Waters. The fraternal filmmaking duo explain of their spectacular subject: “We wanted to create a film that entered into Marie-Lou’s world and build a surreal story that could match it, that became an extension of her art. The visit to the therapist was a perfect and funny way to express the way she finds her inspiration, of how she works, and why she does what she does."
“We wanted to create a film that entered into Marie-Lou’s world and build a surreal story that could match it, that became an extension of her art. The visit to the therapist was a perfect and funny way to express the way she finds her inspiration, of how she works, and why she does what she does."
Los Hermanos Polo
Los Hermanos Polo
Clone Corrupt
Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen (CO), USA, 2019
While Annette Isham and Marie-Lou Desmeules have a different approach to making, both share ties experimenting with duality, disguise, and the performative elements of identity.
Unshot Filmstills
Donnerstag Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2019
"Unshot Film Stills", a series of contingencies by Katz & Steve photographed by Amin Akhtar that capture the most striking moments of the most attractive films that we will not be able to see in theaters. Katz & Steve is an art collective founded by Paula Bogati and Desmeules in 2006. It is known for its live performances, such as at the House of Culture in Copenhagen and Prater Berlin. The selection of delirious and suggestive photographs in a hypothetical street between the terrifying loneliness of the suburban developments of Gregory Crewdson and the most central and privileged blocks of Alex Prager, is the result of 10 years of collaboration and the best that can be said about them is that they make you want to take your ticket out of the cinema in a late night session."
Jesús García Cívíco, El Hype
Jesús García Cívíco, El Hype
THE THREE HEADED-MONSTER
Barraka, Bucharest, Romania, 2015
Last Saturday in Baraka, we spent two hours in an almost church silence, watching a girl sit motionless in a chair, gradually lose her identity and turn, under the hands of an artist, into a monster. The terrace was covered, in an experimental and mystical way, with candles scattered on coffee tables and a makeshift wooden scene, guarded by pillars, in the middle of which a chair awaited. Next to the scene, on the left, behind the desk, Silent Strike was waiting. The music was cold and the people at the tables were waiting. Marie-Lou Desmeules came out of nowhere, short red hair, wearing a hand-painted T-shirt and jeans. She was so energetic that with her outfit she had an aura of a superhero. The actress Ana-Maria Irimia, model of the show, also stood up at the first meal. Marie Lou gave her a yellow ochre shirt to put on, stuffed her with false shoulders and biceps, and grabbed her hair with a shower cap. Until now, nothing extraordinary, the beers continued to flow quietly down her throat. When Marie-Lou wrapped a piece of plastic film over her mouth, spreading it all over the lower half of her face, a murmur was heard in public, and since then, everyone has been absorbed by the two women on the stage. Two hours followed during which, slowly, to the almost hallucinating music of Silent Strike, Ana-Maria melted before our eyes and on top of it a sculpture-painting with grotesque features, of which only a human eye remains.
Karin Budrugeac, SUB 25
Photos by Adi Bulboacă
Karin Budrugeac, SUB 25
Photos by Adi Bulboacă
Who Are You?
TRAFO House of Contemporary Art, Szczecin, Poland, 2014
Albano Desmeules Samson
Studio 9, Istanbul, Turkey, 2011
"Studio 9 Istanbul, the new art space in Istanbul, opened on December 1st. Aiming to bring a fresh breath to the art world in Nişantaşı with exhibitions of different concepts, the gallery brought together two world-famous and extraordinary artists in the same venue in its first exhibition.
One is Canadian photographer - sculptor Marie-Lou Desmeules, who gave live models a new identity by using painting techniques and playing with photo frames. The other is the Italian sculptor Francesco Albano, who also attended the 54th Venice Biennale this year and traced the effects of social pressures on the human body."
Hurriyet
One is Canadian photographer - sculptor Marie-Lou Desmeules, who gave live models a new identity by using painting techniques and playing with photo frames. The other is the Italian sculptor Francesco Albano, who also attended the 54th Venice Biennale this year and traced the effects of social pressures on the human body."
Hurriyet
Du Langage Jusqu'à La Chair!
Laval University, Quebec, Canada, 2011
What happens to a being trapped in an appearance imposed by the other.
Being trapped in a foreign body without being able to speak or move. Transforming oneself into a perfectly grotesque being while undergoing the gaze of the other. This is the strange experience that those who responded to the Faculty of Philosophy's invitation to attend an artistic and philosophical performance and featuring artist Marie-Lou Desmeules, who lives and works in Berlin and is well known for her spectacular pictorial surgeries."
Renée Larochelle, Laval Nouvelles
Being trapped in a foreign body without being able to speak or move. Transforming oneself into a perfectly grotesque being while undergoing the gaze of the other. This is the strange experience that those who responded to the Faculty of Philosophy's invitation to attend an artistic and philosophical performance and featuring artist Marie-Lou Desmeules, who lives and works in Berlin and is well known for her spectacular pictorial surgeries."
Renée Larochelle, Laval Nouvelles
