Renée Condo - One who shatters particles, one who smell flowers
2025 | RENÉE CONDO
ONE WHO SHATTERS PARTICLES, ONE WHO SMELLS FLOWERS
MONTREAL
June 26 - Aug 23, 2025
Opening Reception : Thursday June 26, 5pm-7pm
Renée Condo, Mawagnutmajig, 2025, Wood beads, acrylic paint, epoxy on wood panel, 72 × 60 in.
Blouin Division is pleased to present One who shatters particles, one who smells flowers, and exhibition of works by Renée Condo.
The title of this exhibition reflects the layered inquiries at the heart of Renée Condo’s practice — an exploration of the tension between scientific and sensory ways of knowing.
The phrase “One who shatters particles” evokes the search for fundamental truths through force and deconstruction — resonating with Condo’s ongoing engagement with quantum physics and cosmology.
In contrast, “One who smells flowers” honours the embodied, relational, and present — echoing Indigenous ways of knowing grounded in the senses, the heart, and lived experience.
Together, these gestures suggest a dynamic inquiry into reality — at once intellectual and embodied, structural and relational — mirrored in the works presented here: larger pieces and smaller, elemental forms that seem to emerge from collisions and transformations of previous exhibitions.
Renée Condo’s work centers on a Mi’gmaq worldview with a particular interest in connectedness and interdependence. Flow, balance, harmony, duality, unity, interconnectedness, interdependence, the importance of reciprocity, soul/spirit: Mi’gmaq traditional knowledge contains a comprehensive structure in which these ideas are central.
“Through a material and spiritual practice, I honour my personal discovery and growing understanding of this beautifully holistic framework, bringing focus to spirit as energy, as flow (Pemi), while centering heart knowledge, an intuitive knowledge premised on the Mi’gmaq fundamental law of relating through Empathetic Love. The bead as fundamental entity, as infinite potentiality, can appear as divided, as unit, as part, but is at once whole and all-encompassing, holding secrets of the world and to the nature of reality.” — Renée Condo