BMI

BMI
TROUBLE #2, Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels, Belgium 2006

Miryam Laplante

Working in a BMI performance for me is like entering a different dimension, a parallel reality where anything can happen but also where I can blindly trust everybody involved, in such a way that it is possible to challenge the laws of gravity, of time, of matter, of art, of performance.

Myriam Laplante is a Canadian artist living in Italy who started performing while she was a student at Ottawa University in the early seventies. After concentrating on painting, installations and photography and started performing again in 1991, while continuing her "gallery" work.
She creates, with a certain degree of cynicism, works imbued with an element of the fantastic that parody the world of fairytales, carnivals, country fairs and circuses. Her installations, photographs and objects draw a scathing portrait of daily reality, using a fanciful and imaginary world to do so. Her work in performance, which goes back to the early 1990s, combines role-playing with caricatured and grotesque staged events focusing on the body, identity, otherness, control and excess. l. She has been a member of Black Market International since 2001.
Her work is in the public collections of the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna (Rome) and the Museo di Arte Contemporanea (Rome), the Galerie Nationale du Québec (Québec) and the National Museum of Photography (Ottawa).
 
Working in a BMI performance for me is like entering a different dimension, a parallel reality where anything can happen but also where I can blindly trust everybody involved, in such a way that it is possible to challenge the laws of gravity, of time, of matter, of art, of performance.



Myriam Laplante is a Canadian artist living in Italy who started performing while she was a student at Ottawa University in the early seventies. After concentrating on painting, installations and photography and started performing again in 1991, while continuing her "gallery" work.
She creates, with a certain degree of cynicism, works imbued with an element of the fantastic that parody the world of fairytales, carnivals, country fairs and circuses. Her installations, photographs and objects draw a scathing portrait of daily reality, using a fanciful and imaginary world to do so. Her work in performance, which goes back to the early 1990s, combines role-playing with caricatured and grotesque staged events focusing on the body, identity, otherness, control and excess. l. She has been a member of Black Market International since 2001.
Her work is in the public collections of the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna (Rome) and the Museo di Arte Contemporanea (Rome), the Galerie Nationale du Québec (Québec) and the National Museum of Photography (Ottawa).