Final Holds draws on the world of professional wrestling as a metaphor for care, absence, and grief, where the final move of a match echoes the last gesture of holding a loved one.
Programming
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To Embody: Joyful Militancy and Irresistible Activism
2026-2027 programRead moreMichelle Caron-Pawlowsky
Finishing HoldsRead moreÆlab
Entre branches, bronches et rayons.Read moreThe duo Ælab, part of the Interventions component of the 2026–2027 program, is presenting two bike-and-audio activities with the Mobile Station, as well as an AV performance featuring modular synthesis, exploring the combined power of plants and mobility.
Caroline Gagné
Peupleraie - Corps social et corps sonoreRead morePeupleraie invites us to explore the soundscape of a community of trees, poplars, in the urban fabric of the Petite-Bourgogne neighborhood and the Lachine Canal, as a metaphor for the “living environment” and the social body. Anyone passing through the South-West neighborhood with an internet-connected device and a pair of headphones can experience the project. Various connectors are available at the HALTE or at the DARE-DARE offices.
Andréanne Martin
Les seins ballants, je m'en vais au ventRead moreLes seins ballants, je m’en vais au vent is a micro-edition of nomadic artist books that explore the idea of wandering from a feminist and decolonial perspective, and are designed to evolve over the course of a year.
Ventology Training and Sensing
Read moreWhat does the air above your neighbourhood actually smell like? What sounds are escaping through the vents on your block? Ventology Training and Sensing invites you into a world full of blowing hot—and sometimes pulpy—air.
Archives
1991 one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-one
A Day With(out) Art
Read moreSunday, December 1, 1991 will mark the third anniversary of A Day Without Art. To mark this occasion, Galerie DARE-DARE will close its doors to the public. A Day Without Art is our way of affirming that AIDS concerns us all. In grief, every loss is shared.
Infiniment petit 1991
Fundraising EventRead moreDARE-DARE invites artists to create a small work of art no larger than 3 inches x 3 inches.
Natalie Roy
Sculptural installationRead moreNatalie Roy's sculptural installation invites us to an encounter with objects denatured from their original essence.
Anna Boghiguian
Paradis perduRead moreAnna Boghiguian exhibits her sculptures and works on paper made from various materials found in her immediate environment.
Wyn Geleynse
InstallationRead moreAs part of the Month of Photography, the gallery presents the work of Wyn Geleynse. This Toronto-based artist is known for his reflection on the operations and complexity of memory.
Book launch
Itérations, Fondation Danaë, projet 1990Read moreThe Regroupement des centres d'artistes autogérés du Québec invites you to the launch of Itérations, a publication illustrating the participation in the events of the Fondation Danaë (France).
Partie de jardin
fundraising eventRead moreThe DARE-DARE gallery sells works by artists Michèle Delisle, Marcelle Ferron, Peter Krausz, Francine Simonin, Serge Tousignant and François Vincent.
Michèle Tremblay-Gillon
PsychéRead moreMichèle Tremblay-Gillon's installation takes over the space of the DARE-DARE gallery with two columns placed face to face on opposite walls.
Manon B. Thibault
La cité des cathédrales intérieures – Les grimoires de Pandore, volet IVRead moreLa Cité des cathédrales intérieures, presented at DARE-DARE, are "small temple-theaters perched atop arcades that trace the mad aspirations of the builders of ziggurats.
Michèle Delisle
PaintingsRead moreHow randomness will take its shape... who knows? But there may be a sensation.
Darren Millington
PaintingsRead moreDiving into the inner being, Darren Millington's pictorial research reshapes our perception of the anthrope into an allegory of the body and its affect.
Jacinthe Tétrault, Charlotte Fauteux, Nicolas Pitre
Taille douceRead moreSmall etchings: the images are compact and complete, intimate and unexpected.
Nathalie Font
Les poly-motifsRead moreNathalie Font's work is composed of various materials: tapestry, paint, paper, frames, carpets, and thus reveal a variety of themes, some inspired by the history of art.
Suzanne Boucher
Drawings and paintingsRead moreWith a disturbing eloquence, Suzanne Boucher's works on paper communicate the sensual pleasure of drawing.