Partners in Art is proud to support MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain’s project Being There taking place starting September 10, 2025. This project features Iván Argote, Omar Victor Diop & Lee Shulman, Maureen Gruben, Joyce Joumaa, Niap and Sanaz Sohrabi, as curated by Marie-Ann Yemsi. This project will be on view at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; for more information, read below or visit www.momentabiennale.com.

In a world saturated with images, some, strangely, are lacking. MOMENTA’s 19th edition, In Praise of the Missing Image, taking place in the fall of 2025 seeks to situate these lacunae in a historical perspective. Being There, a group exhibition at the MAC, will act as the biennale’s headquarters and explore both contemporary challenges in relation to the image and the current consequences of the complex dynamics involved in constructing narratives. Which stories are told, how, and by whom? Conceived as a gathering that will draw its strength from the active co-presence of many, this edition will open spaces for dialogue, hospitality, and the expression of struggles and solidarities wherein decolonial and feminist pedagogies and ancestral knowledge intersect. The narratives and gestures employed by these artists will evoke the vital necessity of bringing together diverse voices and stories, and will underline the transformative and healing experience of choosing consonant words and forms to speak of oneself. Through the unruly material of art, MOMENTA 2025 and Being There invite us to imagine collectively the means, political and poetic, by which we may inhabit the impasses of the present and sketch out ways toward the future.

Image: Inauguration of the exhibition This Is Not a Metaphor, by Valérie Blass, presented at the Fonderie Darling as part of MOMENTA 2023. Photo: Mike Patten