MACS Summer Exhibitions Feature Anthropological Vision in Art

The Musée d'Art Contemporain du Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean (MACS) has introduced three new contemporary art exhibitions for its summer lineup. The exhibitions draw from the MACS collection, featuring some fifteen works that explore an anthropological vision bridging the near and far, familiar and foreign, center and periphery. This approach, inspired by Claude Lévi-Strauss's concept of 'the distant gaze,' aims to bring distant perspectives closer while estranging the familiar. Artists in the exhibitions work to reconcile modern and traditional, rational and sensuous, progress and nature. The curatorial framework references Marcel Broodthaers' geopoetic atlas, which reduces state outlines to a common scale, creating an archipelago of otherness. This subversion of boundaries is presented as a struggle against established hierarchies. The exhibitions are part of MACS's summer programming, though specific dates and artist names are not provided in the source.