Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain is pleased to present La périphérie des choses, a group exhibition featuring invited artists Tom Bonheur, Éloïse Carpintero, Kelly Davis, Morgan Legaré and Aidan Matthews.
There is much strangeness to be found in banal things. Many of the everyday objects and built spaces we encounter – meant to structure our relationship to the world – can paradoxically contribute to a sense of unmooring. We recognize their codes and understand their functions, and yet sustained attention dissolves this familiarity into something more uncanny, revealing forms disconnected from their intended purpose and ordinary context. Then emerges – fleeting and vertiginous – the strangeness of our surroundings.
Bringing together five invited artists – Éloïse Carpintero, Tom Bonheur, Kelly Davis, Morgan Legaré, and Aidan Matthews – La périphérie des choses focuses on those imperceptible moments when our relationship to the world quietly shifts. From this peripheral position, particular attention is paid to what is usually overlooked: the poetic flickering of a shadow, the unsettling gleam of plastic materials, the ambiguity of reflections. But also, to our experience of them. How do places – and what they contain – act upon bodies? And how, in turn, do bodies inscribe their presence within them?
If the periphery here designates a paradoxical space – between refuge and discomfort, distance and presence – it is not a break from reality. Rather, the works brought together in the exhibition offer a way of seeing that reorients how everyday life is perceived and inhabited.
Éloïse Carpintero is a filmmaker and visual artist and a recent graduate of Concordia University's Film Production program. Guided by the entanglement of their experiences as a biracial and neurodivergent person, their practice spans from traditional narrative filmmaking to experimental, research-based cinema developed through artisanal methods.Their work explores, on the one hand, the relationship between desire and trauma through the intrusion of the supernatural into narrative, and on the other, the liminal experience of marginalization. The body remains central to their practice, both in the way it is represented on screen and in how it is engaged within the viewer's experience. They are currently completing a masters in cinematic arts at Concordia University, where their research examines the role of the body in the creative process of screenwriting.
Kelly Davis is a Montreal-based painter whose work explores thresholds of vision and awareness. Working primarily in oil, Davis investigates light as a perceptual field in constant transformation. Her work resists fixity, blurs boundaries, and produces unstable images whose meaning emerges through the act of looking. Coming from a background in performance, her practice is grounded in corporeal awareness and deep attunement, maintaining a continuous connection to the body as a site of expanded perception. Davis has exhibited across Canada at venues including TAP Art Space and Eastern Bloc (Montréal), as well as Western Front, VIVO Media Arts Centre, and the Vancouver Art Gallery. In 2024, she received an artch grant for emerging artists. In 2025, she was an artist-in-residence at Casa Lü Parque in Mexico City, presenting work at Foire Plural with Loto-Québec x artch. Most recently, she exhibited with twoseventwo (Toronto) at Feria Material (Mexico City). Her work is held in private collections in Canada, the United States, Mexico, and the United Kingdom. This summer, she will present new work at Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain (Montréal) and is developing a solo exhibition with twoseventwo for 2027.
Originally from Trois-Rivières, Morgan Legaré lives and works in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. A self-taught multidisciplinary artist and curent candidate for the MFA in Sculpture/Ceramics at Concordia University (2025-2028), his practice oscillates between installation, sculpture, and print. His work is included in the Majudia and Ubisoft Montréal collections, as well as several private collections across Quebec. Dedicated to supporting the arts community, he has donated works to organizations and benefit auctions such as Galerie B-312, Esse arts + opinions (Vendu/Sold), and Les Impatients (Parle-moi d’amour). His latest body of work, Bâti, was presented at Galerie R3 (2026) and is scheduled for a subsequent exhibition at LANGAGE PLUS (2027). His work has also been featured in solo exhibitions, notably at the ROSALUX project space in Berlin, Germany (2025), Fais-moi l’art (2024), Galerie ELEKTRA (2023), ARTCH (2022), and L’OEil de Poisson (2022). He is an active member and sits on the board of directors at Centre d’art et de diffusion CLARK.
Aidan Matthews (b.1999) is a photographer from Montreal, Canada. He works instinctually to make images in reaction to light, colours, and gestures. In both his commercial and his personal work, he takes a graphic approach to his compositions, isolating forms, textures, and colours. In 2024, Aidan graduated from Concordia University with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Photography. His first self-published photobook, Being Alive Twice, was self-published in 2025 with an accompanying solo exhibition at Espace Transmission in Montreal.