Maddie McNeely
Paras Vijan

Maddie McNeely + Paras Vijan
Thursday December 4, 6pm
Artist Talk

Join us for an evening of conversations around the current exhibitions.
Two discussions will take place: Maddie McNeely in conversation with Camille Richard, followed by Paras Vijan in conversation with Aman Sandhu.

6:00 pm: Welcome
6:15 pm: Discussion 1 — Maddie McNeely × Camille Richard
6:45 pm: Discussion 2 — Paras Vijan × Aman Sandhu

The discussions will take place in English. Bilingual participation is welcome. Chairs will be available. For any questions regarding accessibility, please contact us at 514 288-4972 or [email protected].

Understory — Maddie McNeely in conversation with Camille Richard

The forest is both a reserved and exploited territory. It offers shelter and resources while bearing traces of extraction and loss. Our built environments reproduce these same tensions: they offer rest, yet are shaped by logics of ownership, profit, and control. How can we exist within a system where protection itself can wound and deepen our vulnerability? — Camille Richard
→ centreclark.com/en/exhibition/understory

Camille Richard is an author and independent researcher living and working along the St. Lawrence River, between Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal and Wolastokuk/Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies. Her research focuses on conceptual and contextual artistic, curatorial, and institutional practices that redefine the parameters of exhibition-making and develop alternative methodologies of production and knowledge transmission. Holding a master’s degree in art history from the Université du Québec à Montréal, her curatorial practice takes multiple forms, including exhibitions, publications, and reflective workshops. Among her most recent projects are Ces vibrations qui nous traversent at DRAC (2025), Champ Liminal at Espace Parenthèses (2022), Fragments at the Musée d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul (2022), and Nos corps ont leurs raisons qu’il nous faut comprendre at Galerie de l’UdeM (2021). Camille has also taken part in residencies and presented her research at DARE-DARE (2023) and La Chambre Blanche (2021). In 2025, she received the Hnatyshyn Foundation – Fogo Island Arts Young Curator Residency Grant. She regularly contributes to specialized art journals such as Vie des arts, Esse, and Espace art actuel. Since 2021, Camille has devoted much of her energy to the general and artistic direction of Est-Nord-Est, where she reflects on ways to make institutional structures more caring and inclusive.

Tathāstu — Paras Vijan
October 30 – December 13, 2025
INT. EXHIBITION ROOM — SUNSET
You enter a room and are guided by a series of bricks—one of them glistening, a vivid saffron hue—arranged to form a path suggesting two directions. You can turn back toward what is familiar, or move forward. What you observe in the space are mostly still objects, marked by traces of recent movement. Do you feel distracted? — Emily Zuberec
→ centreclark.com/en/exhibition/tathastu

Aman Sandhu is an artist and writer currently pursuing a PhD at Concordia University, where his research focuses on Afrological time and improvisation in image making. His practice moves across installation, drawing, sound, and text, engaging improvisation, diasporic memory, and collective modes of production. Sandhu’s work has been exhibited at Centre Clark (Montreal), the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery (Montreal), Market Gallery (Glasgow), and the Centre for Contemporary Arts CCA (Glasgow). He has participated in residencies at the Banff Centre (Canada), Cove Park (Scotland), Hospitalfield (Scotland), and Grotta AIR (Spain). His writing has appeared in C Magazine, Sociology Lens, and Nothing Personal Magazine.