Exhibition Dates
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Claudia Goulet-Blais, Un geste familier | A Familiar Gesture, from the Entre tes mains | In Your Hands series, 2025, inkjet print, 127 x 101.6 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Michelle Caron-Pawlowsky, Untitled, from the Finishing Holds | Prises Finales series, 2025, inkjet print mounted on plywood, 53 x 53 x 15.5 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Claudia Goulet-Blais, Ce qui accueille, ce qui habite I | That which welcomes, that which inhabits I, from the Entre tes mains | In Your Hands series, 2025, inkjet print, 127 x 101.6 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Claudia Goulet-Blais, Ce qui accueille, ce qui habite II | That which welcomes, that which inhabits I, from the Entre tes mains | In Your Hands series, 2025, inkjet print, 127 x 101.6 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Michelle Caron-Pawlowsky, Untitled, from the Finishing Holds | Prises Finales series, 2025, steel and LED panels, 53 x 53 x15.5 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Claudia Goulet-Blais, Un geste familier | A Familiar Gesture, from the Entre tes mains | In Your Hands series, 2025, inkjet print, 127 x 101.6 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Michelle Caron-Pawlowsky, Untitled, from the Finishing Holds | Prises Finales series, 2025, inkjet print mounted on plywood, 53 x 53 x 15.5 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Claudia Goulet-Blais, Ce qui accueille, ce qui habite I | That which welcomes, that which inhabits I, from the Entre tes mains | In Your Hands series, 2025, inkjet print, 127 x 101.6 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Claudia Goulet-Blais, Ce qui accueille, ce qui habite II | That which welcomes, that which inhabits I, from the Entre tes mains | In Your Hands series, 2025, inkjet print, 127 x 101.6 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Michelle Caron-Pawlowsky, Untitled, from the Finishing Holds | Prises Finales series, 2025, steel and LED panels, 53 x 53 x15.5 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Selected
Pull Them in Close | Se Tenir Proche
Opening Reception
Saturday, April 11, 12 – 3 pm
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Pull Them in Close | Se Tenir Proche brings together works from two respective series: Entre tes mains | In Your Hands by Claudia Goulet-Blais, and Finishing Holds | Prises finales by Michelle Caron-Pawlowsky. Through acts of touch, gesture, and performance, both artists consider how relational connections and mortality shape identity and the ways we inhabit and inherit complex familial roles.
Entre tes mains | In Your Hands traces the shifting bond between mother and daughter. Mother and artist perform for the camera as stand-ins for broader familial encounters, revealing pressures of responsibility, inheritance of care, and transformations of roles over time. Staged gestures and obscured identities prompt reflection on who cares for whom and how these roles evolve through experiences of loss, closeness, distance, and change.
Finishing Holds | Prises finales draws on the visual universe of professional wrestling as a metaphor for care, absence, and grief, where the final move of a wrestling match parallels the final instance of holding a dying loved one. Drawing on the history of public combat as an ancient commemorative funeral ceremony, sculptural self-portraiture is used to reimagine the mourning ritual through the lens of professional wrestling.
Together, Goulet-Blais and Caron-Pawlowsky engage in an image-based dialogue where photographic performance becomes a vehicle for stories of transformation, care, connection, and kinship.
