RESISTANCE has been the driving metaphor and conceptual core of Michel de Broin's artistic work since the mid-90s. A singular feature of the Quebecois artist's approach to this is the creation of physical systems that simultaneously generate a force and thwart it. As Bernard Lamarche has cogently demonstrated, de Broin does not work resistance as "an against" but as something that works "with" materials to uncover tensions and contradictions that would otherwise go unnoticed. (1) This way of working is by no means an inconsequential gesture, for the artist takes great care to ...

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