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| - One of my favorite exhibition spaces in Montreal, and one that's hosted some of my favorite art exhibits. You won't find a lot of mainstream oils featuring sad kittens and clowns here, and you'll generally get to see some pretty weird stuff. Paintings, yes, and often, but alongside a good bunch of photography and sculpture, with the occasional animatronic gizmo thrown in to remind you that this is the atomic age. Adventurous young thrusters and local university graduate student artists are recurringly featured.
It's a pretty good place to find and speak to the artists during vernissages; the staff are present and fairly visible, and they'll gladly point out or lead you over to the paint-speckled creators of the featured attractions when asked. The light, space, and relatively low noise levels permit and encourage conversation. The coat racks (in cold weather) and above-average wine encourage people to stay a while.
The combination of lots of room, good, warm light, reliably unusual and interesting art, ample free street parking, clean restrooms, and proximity to Rue Notre Dame's bars and restaurants for a drink afterwards makes this my favorite vernissage destination in Montreal. I'm on their mailing list for keeps.
The name? It's an old commercial laundry, repurposed.
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