David Altmejd: Virtual exhibition: Agora

Curator: Louise Déry
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David Altmejd. Agora is the first virtual exhibition to date on the artist’s work. Designed to ensure wider dissemination of his heads and busts created over the last thirty years, it follows on from the exhibition of the same name presented at the Galerie de l’UQAM from November 7, 2025 to January 24, 2026 and the catalogue published on the same occasion. In the agora representing the concept of the exhibition, he displays independent busts and heads that seem linked by an unlikely genealogy, a filiation asking to be deciphered. Forming a remarkable assembly of mythological and real characters, spiritual and terrestrial figures, as well as human and non-human creatures, this body of work reveals the extent to which Altmejd brings about a metamorphosis of the living, induced by creative and unconscious forces, to construct a world.