Expo 67

Conceived as part of the Artist-in-Residence program and a collaboration between the Museum and the Biosphère marking the 60th anniversary of Expo 67, this exhibition by Place Courage, the artistic duo formed by sisters Marie Samuel Levasseur and Maude Levasseur, will explore the material, social, and symbolic legacies of this landmark event in Montréal’s history. The joint exhibition will be presented across both institutions’ spaces in spring 2027.

Drawing on the Museum’s collections, the historic Expo 67 site, and a research and creation process undertaken during the residency, the artists will consider Expo 67 as a living space: a reservoir of objects and images, ideas and utopias to be reactivated rather than a simple record of the past. It is a space where yesterday’s promises overlap with today’s uncertainties.

Between memory and projection, the exhibition invites visitors into a dialogue across temporalities, connecting the futures imagined in the past, the one we inhabit today, and those still to be invented. 

Place Courage

Place Courage is an artist duo formed by sisters Marie Samuel Levasseur and Maude Levasseur. Their multidisciplinary practice bridges participatory art and the transmission of knowledge, with particular attention to narratives of care, belonging, and collective memory. Marie’s multidisciplinary practice and Maude’s grounding in textile arts and art/health research feed into one another, pushing the duo to seek, for each project, the approach that will best do justice to the stories being told. 

Place Courage – Photo : Gabriel Fournier

Among their accomplishments: La Table des plats perdus, which brought together more than 2,000 people at the Monument-National; Soin Maison, a public art photography trail resulting from a residency with the Regroupement des aidant·es naturel·les de Montréal; and Le Banquet des plats perdus du Nord, presented as part of the FIKAS festival in collaboration with Inuit, Innu, Sámi, Scandinavian, Nordic, and Québécois communities.