Notre Histoire = Our History
"The book Notre histoire || Our History is published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same title, a project by artist Michael Blum on the issue of Quebec and Canadian identity. The exhibition is the result of work carried out under the Galerie's summer residency program. The artist has set up a museum in the exhibition hall, offering a fanciful rewriting of the history of Quebec and Canada, in addition to a publication containing the responses of 86 people to a survey on their vision of identity. This survey—"non-scientific" by the artist's own admission— was addressed to more than 600 more or less public figures in politics, the arts, journalism and academia, to help establish a conceptual framework for his artistic project. The exhaustive views of the 86 respondents are collected here, running between cynicism and humour, candour and fervour, in English and French. " -- Publisher's website.