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The exhibition Françoise Sullivan chorégraphie la matière, to be held at Galerie Simon Blais, debuts a week before the retrospective of her work at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal opens. The overlap in the timing of the two exhibitions posed a real challenge for the gallery, as the number of sculptures by the artist that are not in the holdings of major institutional collections is limited. That situation, however, spurred us on to the rediscovery, restoration and even reactivation of some wonderful works.

From 1959 to 1970, Françoise Sullivan gave up dance to devote the major part …