Essays and Press Articles (selection)
Josianne Poirier, “Cohabiting with Birds: Interview with Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens,” Espace Art Actuel, Issue 137, Spring-Summer 2024, p. 84-93. (Link)
Noémie Fortin, “From Appropriating Territory to Valuing Agricultural Land,” Esse arts + opinions, 110, Winter 2024, p.34-43 (Link)
Mirna Abiad-Boyadjian, “Arpenter l’archipel,” Esse arts + opinions, Issue 110, Winter 2024, p. 104-105 (Link).
Ray Cronin, “Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens,” Sculpture, May 5, 2023 (Link)
Jérôme Delgado, “L’imaginaire radical II : désoeuvrer la valeur : l'offensive alternative”, Le Devoir, September 17, 2022. (Link)
Annie Gérin & Peter Hodgins, "Indiscriminate Monuments and the Crisis of Commensuration", In the Milk of Facts, There Always Lands a Fly, Guido Molinari Foundation (English with French translation). (PDF)
Bénédicte Ramade, "L’efficacité de la forme. Ibghy & Lemmens". Spirale, Écologies (dé)coloniales,
Numéro 278, hiver 2022 : 46-59. (Link)
Gean Moreno, “Lost in Translation: Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens at the Ulrich Museum of Art”,
Art in America, October 13, 2021. (Link)
Debra Thimmesch, “Look, it’s daybreak, dear, time to sing”, Art Papers, October 2021. (Link)
Nicolas Mavrikakis, “Heureux détour par la Fondation Grantham,” Le Devoir, 19 juin 2021. (Link)
André-Louis Paré, “Du territoire au sol vivant : entretien avec Richard Ibghy et Marilou Lemmens,”
Espace art actuel, Issue 128 (Spring-Summer 2021). (Link)
Noémie Fortin, “Querelle entre deux puces pour savoir à qui appartient le chien sur lequel elle vivent,” Ciel variable, Issue 117, Summer 2021. (Link)
Nicolas Mavrikakis, “Trois questions à Ibghy & Lemmens,” Le Devoir, May 8 2021. (Link)
Bénédicte Ramade, “Artists as Pathfinders: Mastering a Candid Relation to the Earth,” Terremoto, Issue 19, March 2021. (Link)
Sophie Drouin, “Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens, Fondation Grantham pour l’art et l’environnement, Saint-Edmond-de-Grantham,” Esse, Art + Opinions, 101, 2021. (Link)
Gregory Volk, “Minimalist Art that Speaks for the Birds,” Hyperallergic, January 18, 2020. (Link)
Anne Bertrand, “Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens,” esse arts + opinions, 94 (Fall 2018). (PDF)
Michael DeRisio, “Chemical Compounds: Acceleration and Hyper-production in Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens’ Visions of a Sleepless World,” ESPACE,120 (fall 2018). (PDF)
Merray Gerges, "Process: Theatre from the Jungle," Canadian Art, Spring, 2018. (PDF)
Jérôme Delgado, "Solitudes et géométries variables au MAC," Le Devoir, June 16, 2018. (PDF)
Gentiane Belanger, "Concrete Complexity: When Data Visualization Gets Put to the Test of Materiality," International Studio & Curatorial Program (iscp), March 1, 2018. (PDF)
James H. Miller, "Abstract art can tell a story - and look good too," The Art Newspaper, Decmber 6, 2017. (PDF)
Monica Uszerowicz, "Using Abstraction as a Political Tool," Hyperallergic, November, 2017. (PDF)
Rachael Rakes, "Notes on Abstraction, Politics, and Arts of the Real," Contemporary Art Stavanger, October, 2017. (PDF)
Ferenc Eln, "OFF-Biennale Budapest: The Flying Kayak," Balkon, October 5, 2017 (English transl.). (PDF)
Geordie Miller, “What Work Is: Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens challenge our drive to be productive,” Visual Art News, Summer 2017. (PDF)
Jennifer Wolf, "Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens at Jane Lombard Gallery," Arte Fuse, April 23, 2017. (PDF)
Clint Burnham, "Reviews: To refuse/to wait/to sleep," Espace: Art actuel, n° 116, 2017. (PDF)
Gentiane Bélanger, “Richard Ibghy & Marilou
Lemmens: Putting Life to Work,” CMagazine 131, Autumn 2016. (PDF)
Marie Perrault, “La vie mise au travail : le pouvoir de l’aliénation,” Espace: Art actuel, n° 114, 2016. (PDF)
Terence Dick, “Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens at YYZ Artists Outlet,” Akimblog, November 9, 2016. (PDF)
Ayren Hoekstra, “Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens: Drawing Rainbows In Unequal Air,” YYZ, October, 2016. (PDF)
Murtaza Vali, “Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens,” Artforum, Critics Picks, September 9, 2016. (PDF)
Bryne McLaughlin, “Life's Work: Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens and the Art of Underperforming,” Canadian Art, Summer, 2016. (PDF)
Benoit Jodoin, “La vie mise au travail,” Esse, 87 - Printemps / été, 2016. (PDF)
Véronique Leblanc, “L’activité artistique comme laboratoire cognitif,” Montréal: Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen printemps, 2016. (PDF)
Véronique Leblanc, “Artistic Labour as Cognitive Laboratory,” Montreal: Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Spring, 2016 (English translation). (PDF)
Nicolas Mavrikakis, “Dormez moins, bande de paresseux!,” Le Devoir, March 5, 2016. (PDF)
Blake Gopnik, “At Postmasters, Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens Forge Small Art from Giant Ideas,” Artnet News, February 10, 2016. (PDF)
Basim Magdy, “The Artists’ Artists: Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens, The Golden USB,” Artforum, December 2015. (PDF)
Kevin McGarry, “14th Istanbul Biennial,” Artforum, December, 2015. (PDF)
Alpesh K. Patel, "Gathering Gossip and Parsing Truth at the Istanbul Biennial," Hyperallergic, October 27, 2015. (PDF)
Gregory Volk, “Matter That Really Matters: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev's Istanbul Biennial,” Art in America, September 28, 2015. (PDF)
Crystal Bennes, "The Best of the Istanbul Biennial," Apollo Magazine, September 7, 2015. (PDF)
Shannon Garden-Smith, "Ways Out from Inside: Towards the Un-Productive in the Work of Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens," Breach, Issue 2, 2015. (PDF)
Gregory Volk, "Montreal Biennale," Art in America, January 2015. (PDF)
Nancy Tousley, “Canada’s Biennale: Montreal’s Star-Making Machine,” Canadian Art, 32 : 11 (Spring 2015). (PDF)
Christophe Domino, "Biennale d’art contemporain, Montréal," artpress, 420 (mars 2015). (PDF)
James D Campbell, “The Montréal Biennale: L’avenir looking forward,” Border Crossings, 34 :1 (March, April, May 2015). (PDF)
Bénédicte Ramade, "Quand l’avenir s’impatiente," Le journal des arts, 423, December 2014. (PDF)
Alison Cooley, "Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens: on Non-Doing in Art," Canadian Art, May 14, 2014. (PDF)
Aryen Hoekstra, "Is there anything left to be done at all?: Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens," C Magazine, No.123, Fall, 2014. (PDF)
"L’avenir (looking forward)," Domus, October 23, 2014. (PDF)
John Murchie, "Arranging pebbles in a certain way," VOX - centre de l'image contemporaine, September 2014. (PDF)
Jérôme Delgado, "Les objets du monde," Le Devoir, September 20, 2014. (PDF)
Andreas Schlaegel, "Arbeidstid," Flash Art, 123, October 2013. (PDF)
Johanne Nordby Werno, "Arbeidstid," Artforum, September, 2013: 430. (PDF)
Antonia Hirsch, "Copernican Skies," The Lights constellating one’s internal sky. Richmond: Richmond Art Gallery, 2011. (PDF)
Michael Belmore, "The Problem with Peeling Potatoes,"
Peter Pete Systems: A Post-Fordist Love Story. Whitby: Station Gallery, 2011. (PDF)
Isabella Hughes Ellaheh, "Sharjah Biennial 10,"
Art Asia Pacific, May-June, 2011: 134-135. (PDF)
Kathy Battista, "Sharjah Biennial 10," Art Monthly,
No 346, May, 2011: 30-31. (PDF)
John Murchie, "Stop, Look, & Listen. See What You Think," Horse and Sparrow. Vernon: Vernon Public Art Gallery, 2010. (PDF)
Liz Park, "What Moves Us" (excerpt), What Moves Us. Vancouver: Western Front Media Arts, 2009. (PDF)
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