The Great Negation

Event: Vernissage, performance and book launch for The Great Negation

Frank Mulvey and Nalo Soyini Bruce

Time: Saturday August 23, 2025, 2 pm - 6:00 pm, performances at 3 pm August 23, September 6, 7 and 21

Space: Galerie Cache Cartier in Montreal, 2010 Cartier

The Great Negation is an artistic project in which I have reimagined the history of the 20th century as a world in which the perception of colour has been labelled as delusional by an authoritarian leadership. In this world, there are  some who struggle to find their way out of this psycho-perceptual eclipse. I’ve created an “evidence box” of this world at Galerie Cache at 2010 Cartier, and I’ve invited interdisciplinary artist Nalo Soyini Bruce to create and direct a series of 10-minute performances from the world of The Great Negation, featuring Mel Pickering.

The exhibition consists of drawings, artifacts, photographs, a bilingual artist book that I’ve created, and an art film featuring Nalo Soyini Bruce. The original music in both the video and the performances was composed by Rob Denton.

• Frank Mulvey

Residents of The Great Negation

Event: Vernissage for the Residents of The Great Negation group exhibition

Ron Shuebrook, Ed Pien, Ianick Raymond, David Gagnon, Annie Regol, Sandra Brewster, Mathieu Larone, Micheal Merrill, Geneviève Dagenais, Mo Lode, Giuseppe Di Leo, Frank Mulvey

Time: Thursday August 14, 2025, 5 pm - 8:00 pm

Space: Galerie Cache Belgo in Montreal, 372 St. Catherine West, suite 418

When visiting Frank Mulvey’s remarkable exhibition Prism Schism, presented at Hangar 7826 in 2024, we never could have predicted that it would become, a year and a half later, the starting point for two exhibitions. However, the playful and polymorphic nature of Mulvey’s universe quickly led us to create curatorial approaches that challenge the curatorial modalities we have grown accustomed to.

Accordingly, the selection of artists brought together in the group exhibition Residents of the Great Negation was not guided by supposed conceptual affinity with Mulvey’s work. We simply invited artists whose practices we value to propose works exploring various modalities of black and white, knowing that their juxtaposition with Mulvey’s delirious and dystopian imagination would provoke unexpected resonances — capable, if only momentarily, of suspending the discourses that tend to distract us from what truly matters: the sensory experience.

The result is a system of mutual correspondences: on the one hand, by accepting our invitation, these “visiting residents” bring a tacit homage that casts renewed light on their own work; on the other hand, the artist allows the richness of his corpus to inform Cache’s editorial and curatorial approach — undoubtedly beyond the timeframe of these two exhibitions (Residents of The Great Negation, group exhibition, and The Great Negation, featuring Frank Mulvey's creations along with performances by invited interdisciplinary artist Nalo Soyini Bruce).

- Eric  Bertrand, founder of Galerie Cache

Future Past

Event: Future Past exhibition vernissage and book launch

Time: Saturday July 5, 2025, 1 pm - 4:00 pm

Space: Cline House Gallery in Cornwall

The Future Past project is about a physical place as well as a place in the mind, explored through charcoal drawings, photographs, a book and a video. Layers of experience, rooted in what was once known as the Faubourg des Récollets of Montreal (now known as the Cité du Multimédia), are brought to light. Factual documentation is partnered with fictitious reimagining. The book (Future Past: Charcoal drawings and overlapping tales from Montreal’s Faubourg des Récollets) traverses a period of decades from the late 20th century to the present day, and is presented as a series of overlapping texts and images from different times and perspectives. While the inception of this project has a definable birthplace, what grew from it is a reflection of countless places that humans have inhabited through time, connected with, and interiorized. In the face of change and displacement, Future Past offers sanctuary.