[Winter 2026]

Little Burgundy
by Rose Henriquez

[EXCERPT]

The exhibition Little Burgundy – Evolving Montreal presented a visual investigation of the Black anglophone community of Little Burgundy in Montreal and of its emotional and spatial memories. For two years, the British-Canadian photographer Andrew Jackson walked the neighbourhood’s streets, assembling a corpus of sixty-one photographs and three short films, which he paired with objects taken from the museum’s collections or lent by the community.

These associations gave the exhibition as a whole a unique trajectory. The images, like stories, conversed with the artefacts, leaving traces that anchored the works in daily life. Visitors moved from faces to streets to archival materials, finding that the key to interpretation was not nostalgia but attention to cohabiting continuities and traumas.

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[ Complete issue, in print and digital version, available here: Ciel variable 131 – Collecting ]
[ Complete article in digital version available here: Little Burgundy]

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Rose Henriquez lives at the crossroads of cultural environments (performance-art criticism) and academic life. Her writings appear in Le Devoir, Gazette des femmes, Jeu, Spirale, and Atelier 10, among others. She explores spaces of activism through art. Recently, she became interested in performance as an art practice, extending her critical reflection through the body. She is a librarian in a Quebec university.