As part of a high-level diplomatic mission, the Board for Grand Art has opened an embassy in the Port of Quebec. At first glance, the small structure seems to have everything such a building might need. But closer inspection reveals that all is not as it seems.
The Swedish collective has deliberately subverted institutional codes to denounce the gender, race, and class inequalities in Sweden’s art world – which are not so different from those in Quebec. Using video, performance, posters, and tracts in a propagandistic style, the discourse of this fictional embassy seeks to shatter our illusions around a country often held up as the most equal society in the world and challenge its reputation as a haven of equality exempt of corruption and discrimination.
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Stéphane Bourgeois
