Eli Kerr’s current gallery practice reflects over a decade of evolving exhibition work rooted in site-specificity and a belief in art as both platform and provocation. What began in 2014 has moved through distinct phases—first with VIE D’ANGE, a much-missed experimental space forced to close under the weight of Mile End’s gentrification, and then with Parc Offsite, launched in 2020 to reimagine what a gallery could be mid-pandemic. Now operating under his own name, Kerr leads an intergenerational program where artists work across sculpture, drawing, video, photography, installation, and painting. What ties the program together isn’t medium but mindset—an interest in process over polish, and in critical, often conceptually rigorous, investigations of art’s relationship to space, history, and public life. The gallery continues to defy convention by operating as a curatorial office as much as a physical venue, with projects extending beyond its walls and into the broader terrain of contemporary culture in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal.
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