© Juan Pablo Hernández Gutiérrez, 2022.
As part of the 8th edition of Montréal Monochrome, interdisciplinary artist Juan Pablo Hernández Gutiérrez presents Materialities in futbol, football, soccer.
Materialities in futbol, football, soccer is a workshop where the facilitator proposes soccer as a catalyst for creativity and subversion. He will show participants how to craft a bola ‘e trapo. The latter translates to soccer rag ball. This workshop, to the public, will be an exercise and conversation on recursivity and subversion. Football has an incredible outreach, being the most popular game in the world. Iconic and global, the beautiful game can be a middle point to facilitate and generate imaginaries with multiple perspectives.
Materialities in futbol, football, soccer proposes a moment to reflect collectively on how football perpetuates and perpetuated oppressive systems. The craft of la bola ‘e trapo and bootleg ball manufacturing in Colombia will also be presented, as well as an improvised football match inside the gallery. As a group, we will decide on basic rules (time of the game, players and limitations). The last activity will allude to the dynamics of street football, where negotiations and space are taken collectively under a familiar convention.
With the fundamental rule of soccer, play with the feet, organize and intervene in spaces. To finalize and cool down, the facilitator will open the room to reflect on the workshop and give space to bring forward reflections on disrupting conventions.
Considering the increase in COVID 19 and flu transmissions, please note that masks must be worn for the duration of the events. Limited number of seats, reserve your place now!
© kimura byol, 2022.
© Juan Pablo Hernandez Gutierrez, 2022.
Juan Pablo Hernández Gutiérrez is an interdisciplinary artist based in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal). He is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Painting and Drawing at Concordia university. His interests revolve around the intricacies of misinterpretation, precarity and adaptation of cultural symbology in new environments. Hernández Gutiérrez is intrigued by how a set of signs loses and gains meaning when displaced and wrongly repeated. He recently participated in group exhibitions such as Open House curated by Sled collective at Livart, Ya llegamos curated by Diane Garcia Ramos and Vanessa Maya at Hoy gallery in 2022 and conducted a residency in August 2022 at the Lab Program in Mexico City.
Montreal Monochrome is an annual conference organized by articule’s Fabulous Committee (anti-oppression). It aims to address the mis- and under-representation and systemic oppression of marginalized groups in Montréal’s contemporary art milieu. The conference works toward imagining and nurturing new and existing bonds, solidarities and friendships between Indigenous artists, thinkers and cultural workers and their racialized allies.
As a project of the Fabulous Committee, this year the Short Term Programming Committee is joining the efforts of the Fabulous Committee to combine the annual conference with a window exhibition and a Special Project. Both proposals are an invitation to think about the new gallery space in terms of multiple notions of time.
Given that accessibility is contextual, varied and dynamic, if any aspect of our programming is inaccessible to you now or in the future, please let us know. We are happy to discuss and provide an alternative.
articule is located in a ground floor commercial building in Villeray neighbourhood. There are no stairs at the gallery, and to enter, the front door has a slope (light inclination). There is one glass door to get into the gallery. A staff member can assist you with the door.
Accessibility contact: Aziza Nassih - outreach@articule.org