2025 | NADIA MYRE
ALL THIS AND MORE...
MONTREAL
Feb 15 - Apr 5

Opening: Saturday, February 15, 2025. From 3pm - 6 pm.

**Nadia Myre**, *Chromatic Perspectives 2*, 2024, Ceramic beads and metal wire, 40" x 40"

Blouin Division is pleased to present All of this and more… an exhibition of selected works by Nadia Myre.

The piece Sounding Line exists in a state of suspension, poised between stability and dissolution. A rope, traditionally used to measure unseen depths, becomes a metaphor for searching, for probing the unknown while never truly anchoring. Sounding Line engages with movement and materiality, embodying the tension between intention and uncertainty—between what is grasped and what remains elusive. The structure suggests a ladder, yet its form resists functionality. It hitches, twists, and slackens, evoking both the physicality of knots and the act of securing or unfastening. Like a line cast into deep water, it seeks something beyond its reach, measuring presence through absence, weight through suspension. It is an instrument of navigation, but one that charts not only distance, but also the limits of knowing, holding, and letting go.

[In]tangible Tangles is a series of found images of moccasins from the archives of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s anthropology department. In addition to the visible wear and tear on the soles, the shoes are also photographed with tags stating their acquisition number and tribal affiliations. Some were acquired as early as the 1860s, while others are newer, having entered the museum’s holdings only a few decades ago. What the photographs don’t show is under what circumstances they were acquired. Many are shoes for children, reminding Myre of residential schools in both the US and Canada, which separated Indigenous children from their parents in order to assimilate them into the culture of their colonizers and have them forgot their cultural traditions and languages. Often, the children were routinely abused; many were killed there.

For She eats sweet grass and has vision and We were the good whites, Myre chose to use a collection of ceramic tubes cast to resemble Gregg shorthand as a way to think about “a universal desire to have an equal language for everyone, a utopic language”.