Two artists explore intimacy and resistance
The Silent Resistances exhibition at UOF Toronto presents works by Tania Love and Noémie Roy, shown successively as part of Le Labo’s In the Spotlight project, in collaboration with the Université de l’Ontario français.
Conceived as an alternative exhibition space, this display case highlights sensitive artistic practices exploring intimacy, slowness, and forms of discreet resistance. In the face of a world shaped by speed and domination, the works propose a shift toward care, delicacy, and attentiveness, valuing gestures that are often invisible.
Tania Love opens the cycle with Morphogenesis I (November 7 to December 11, 2024), an installation inspired by natural materials and the human body, evoking an organic network of veins, leaves, and breaths. In response, Noémie Roy presents L’épingle filante (February 13 to March 19, 2025), a textile and poetic work that explores notions of care, transformation, and memory.
The exhibition is enhanced by digital mediation tools, including an augmented reality experience accessible via QR code, as well as audio and visual content that extends the reflection.
Digital mediation tools
These tools were developed in collaboration with two undergraduate students in UOF’s Digital Cultures program: Stéphanie Salgo (around Tania Love’s work) and Steve Kawe (around Noémie Roy’s work).
Around Morphogenesis I — a tool by Stéphanie Salgo
Around Morphogenesis I, Stéphanie Salgo offers an augmented reality experience accessible via QR code. Starting from a digitized leaf from the installation, the public is invited to activate a sensitive animation evoking organic pulsations, accompanied by a soundscape recorded inside tree trunks.
This tool explores relationships between bodies and natural environments, bringing tactile perception, breath, and circulation into dialogue—echoing the materials and rhythms present in Tania Love’s work.
Scan to activate the augmented reality experience
Around L’épingle filante — a tool by Steve Kawe
In dialogue with L’épingle filante, Steve Kawe develops an immersive approach combining mediation, sound creation, and poetic exploration.
His tool offers an interactive reading of the work through a map of words and a dynamic visual interface, where text and image intertwine to create a space for sensitive exploration. The public is thus invited to become an active participant in their experience, navigating between fragments of the narrative and building their own path.
Podcast: a dialogue around creation
This podcast produced by Steve Kawe with Noémie Roy offers a reflection on the links between creation, mediation, and the artistic experience.
