Arsenal Contemporary Art Montreal is proud to present Futurs Spéculaires, Sabrina Ratté’s first institutional solo exhibition in Montreal. Organised with the support of ELLEPHANT and ELEKTRA, Futurs Spéculaires brings together a selection of 18 artworks by Canadian artist.

Using photogrammetry, digital print, video, 3D animation and virtual reality, Sabrina Ratté imagines and creates digital environments that materialize potential futures questioning the relationship between technology and the environment. The selected works invite visitors to experience these virtual worlds and to form their own interpretation of a scene in which they themselves the actor.

If specular refers to the physical properties of light as it is reflected on the surface of a mirror,for the artist it is also a way to reverse temporality. By selecting and transforming analog signals and integrating them into her videos, Sabrina Ratté uses light from the past to build hypothetical futures which are then reflected in the present through her installations. 

In these speculative futures, the boundary between the real and the virtual is constantly out into question through various exhibition devices where light, iridescence and play of reflections become the link between these two realms.

Sabrina Ratté

lives and works in Montreal. Her practice focuses on the multiple manifestations of the digital image: analog video, 3D animation, photography, print, sculpture, virtual reality, and installation. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Centre Pompidou (Paris, France), the Laforet Museum (Tokyo, Japan), the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Canada), the PHI Centre (Montreal, Canada), the Chronus Art Center (Shanghai, China), la Gaîté Lyrique (Paris, France), and the Museum of the Moving Image (New York, USA). Her work is part of several institutional and private collections, including those of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec. Sabrina Ratté is represented by the gallery ELLEPHANT in Montrea