To celebrate its 40th anniversary, AXENÉO7 is revisiting a key event from its thirtieth anniversary program (2013): the Salons. A veritable artistic banquet, the Salons bring guest artists together with the center's community over dinner, for a participatory discussion on a specific subject, and to present research, performances and reflections, all in a convivial atmosphere.
The Salons series consists of four events presented during each season of the 40th
programming year, between La Filature's backyard and the center's exhibition spaces, depending on the weather. These dinners are free and open to all.
For this first artistic dinner, the center invite s Mélanie Boucher, Lauranne Faubert-Guay,
Pierre-Antoine Lafon Simard and Marc A. Reinhardt to discuss the theme of interpretation. ​​​​
In its most literal sense, the term alludes to performing arts practices, but also to the gesture
of reading, appropriation, compromise and translation. We can conceive of the gesture of
interpretation as an act of empowerment, agency and survival. Interpretation allows us to
bend rules, contexts and codes in order to transform them, make sense of them and make
them evolve.
Founded in 1983, AXENÉO7 is an artist-run center dedicated to advocating, promoting, and
exhibiting the visual arts, while developing critical discourse around them. It is a gathering
place for sharing and experimentation. Through a critically engaged program, it endeavours
to expand the parameters of artistic practice and its presentation, and to improve artists’
conditions for production.