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DESCRIPTION:\n	Trace\, late 14th century\, “to make a plan or diagram”\, fro
 m Old French\, 12th century\, trasser “delineate\, score\, trace\, follow\
 , pursue”.\n\n\nMateria Medica is an exhibition of recent work by Montreal
  artist Loren Williams.  Invited by the Osler Library of the History of Me
 dicine to create a body of work on the theme of Montreal’s medical history
 \, and recipient of the Michele Larose - Osler library Artist in Residence
  Programme for 2017\, the artist combines artifacts from the Osler collect
 ion with collected and created traces of Montreal’s medical past.\n\nThe w
 ork in this exhibition draws inspiration from books and artifacts in the O
 sler Library as well as a wide variety of other sources.  In particular\, 
 early maps of the city offer a form of time travel\, indicating the locati
 on of the first hospitals and their large gardens used for food and medici
 nal plants.  Three hundred year old streets such as rue de l’Hopital and r
 ue des Soeurs Grises still exist in Montreal today\, drawing direct lines 
 to Montreal’s medical history\, as do streets named Jeanne Mance\, Marguer
 ite d’Youville and Penfield.\n\nInterested in these traces that reference 
 Montreal’s medical heritage\, Loren Williams has created a body of images 
 that form a shadow archive. Images of medicinal plants used by the First P
 eoples and early settlers in Montreal were created using a 19th century ca
 mera-less photographic process called Cyanotype.  The blue coloured images
  reveal the shadowy forms and details of the plants.  They are like paper 
 X-rays\, made from a simple photographic process that uses UV rays\, ie. s
 unlight\, to expose the image\, and water to develop it\, sun and water­­ 
 being the same basic ingredients required by plants. \n\nOver the course o
 f a year\, the artist followed charted streets and routes that link Montre
 al’s past and present. Using epidemiological maps\, she explored the sites
  and neighbourhoods of the city’s devastating outbreaks of Typhus\, Choler
 a\, Small Pox and Tuberculosis.  Other plans of the city led her to sites 
 of hospitals\, asylums and the longest duel in Canadian history over the b
 uilding of a new hospital.\n\nLike the collected plants that echo an early
  botanical pharmacy\, Loren Williams also collected and created other trac
 es of medical history.  X-rays and teeth molds reveal the body’s structure
 s\, fractures and medical interventions. First aid kits and their compartm
 ents double as garden plans for medicinal plants\, while hospital architec
 ture is represented in the form of postcards the shape of library index ca
 rds.\n\nThese works\, presented with artifacts from the Osler Library coll
 ection\, bring together images and objects from the realm of science\, art
  and everyday life\, offering an eclectic\, less rational\, interconnected
  perspective of Montreal’s medical history. \n\n-----\n\nWe acknowledge th
 e support of the Canada Council for the Arts\, which last year invested $1
 53 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.\n	Nous re
 mercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier\, le C
 onseil a investi 153 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie 
 des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.\n\n\nLoren Williams is a
  visual artist working predominantly in photography. The passage of time\,
  natural history\, museums and obsolete photographic technologies are the 
 inspiration and vocabulary of her practice. Frequently there is a connecti
 on between the artwork and the site where it is presented. \n\nOriginally 
 from the Kootenays in British Columbia\, Loren Williams moved to Montreal 
 in 1993 and received her BFA honours in photography at Concordia Universit
 y. She has received awards and grants from the federal and provincial art 
 councils and has exhibited her work nationally.\n\nLoren Williams extends 
 much gratitude to Michele Larose\, the Osler Library for the History of Me
 dicine\, and the Canada Council for the Arts for their generous contributi
 on to this residency and exhibition project.\n
DTSTART:20171213T223000Z
DTEND:20180504T210000Z
LOCATION:Osler Library of the History of Medicine\, 3rd floor\, McIntyre Me
 dical Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3G 1Y6\, 3655 promenade Sir William
  Osler
SUMMARY:Exhibition | Materia Medica
URL:/library/channels/event/exhibition-materia-medica-
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