Nelson Henricks - Prix Robert Forget 2024

September 16, 2024 to December 15, 2024
 
Description

First presented at Cinéma Moderne, this program, assembled by Robert-Forget 2024 award winner Nelson Henricks, highlights the artist's reflections on his own practice, as well as the works that have inspired him.

Curator
Nelson Henricks

Nelson Henricks was born in Bow Island, Alberta and graduated from the Alberta College of Art. He moved to Montréal in 1991 and received a BFA from Concordia University. He recently completed a PhD at Université du Québec à Montréal. Henricks has taught art history and studio art at Concordia University, McGill University, UQAM and Université de Montréal. His writings have been published in exhibition catalogues, magazines, and in several anthologies. A curator and artist, Henricks is best known for his videotapes and video installations, which have been exhibited worldwide. A focus on his video work was presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as part of the VideoViewpoints series in 2000.

List of works in program

Multidisciplinary artist and video artist Nelson Henricks is the winner of the Prix Robert-Forget 2024. To highlight his exceptional artistic career, Vidéographe is offering, in addition to this video program, a publication dedicated to the artist's approach. 
 
“Nelson Henricks' work is very unique and emblematic of what contemporary artistic practices have to offer. A way of being in the world that at once unmistakably inscribes itself in the present, while acknowledging what has built it, nourished it, stimulated it, made it, so to speak. By developing this language that is so singular to him, Henricks has made a very significant contribution to the evolution of video art in Canada.  In addition to the extraordinary quality of his work, Henricks has made a generous contribution to his community. A contribution that unfolds in many ways, from supporting the development of young artists' practice in institutional or non-institutional settings, to enriching the discourse around the works of his peers, to contributing to the influence and balance of Montreal's visual and media arts ecosystem.”
 
Excerpt from the presentation text for Nelson Henricks' nomination for the Prix Robert-Forget 2024.

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