Thanks to the support of the Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal, the Maison de la culture du Plateau-Mont-Royal presents an extraordinary exhibition: Elena Perlino – Indian Time.
From November 2nd to December 2nd 2018
Maison de la culture du Plateau-Mont-Royal 465, avenue du Mont-Royal Est – Free admission.
For more information (514) 872-2266
Elena Perlino carried out “Indian Time”during three visits to the Québec-Labrador border. Her photo series runs through the Innu and Naskapi communities, between Natashquan, Mani-Utenam, Matimekosh-Lac-John, Kawawachikamach and Sheshatshiu. She traveled through these spaces and these singular times – marked by ritual, by the passing of traditions, and by day-to-day life – so that we may enter into “nordicity,” and come as close as possible to those who inhabit it. Indian Time sets off to encounter landscapes and human stories that reveal the chaotic traces left by a recent history of Québec, like the mining companies carrying out operations in Matimekosh/Schefferville. Each image invites us to revisit the established order and to follow along with the artist’s sensitive gaze, above and beyond a documentary vision.
Born in Italy and now living in France, Elena Perlino earned a masters degree in modern literature. Since then she committed herself to documentary photography and personal research projects. She received a grant from the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund in 2015 as well as a scholarship from Open Society Foundations. For eight years, she has taken photographs to be major hubs of Nigerian women trafficking towards Italy and in 2014 she published the book Pipeline (Schilt Publishing, André Frère Éditions).