Festival Art Souterrain
Want to experience art in a whole new way? Come to Place Ville Marie on Thursday, May 7 at 6 PM for an unforgettable evening of performances with Farzaneh and Mancy Rezaei, joined by Soleil Launière and Arcángelo Constantini.
The artists will take over the halls, turning the space into a living playground: movement, bodies, sound, and materials blend together to create surprising, fleeting moments. Everyday life becomes a stage, and you’re invited to watch, feel, and let yourself be carried away by the energy of the performance.
It’s a free, immersive experience where you can walk around, pause, observe, and get inspired. Whether you’re an art fan or just curious, this evening is all about making you feel, think, and see the city as a living stage for art.
Performances:
6 PM: Soleil Launière (30min),
7 PM: Sœurs Rezaei (30min)
7 PM and 7:40 PM: Arcángelo Constantini (30min each)
Biographies
Farzaneh and Mancy Rezaei
Farzaneh and Mancy Rezaei are two Iranian-Canadian sisters and visual artists, who have been based in Montreal since 2014. Recipients of master’s degrees in Visual and Media Arts from the University of Quebec in Montréal (2020–2021), they develop distinct but complementary practices, united by a reflection on immigration, identity, memory, the representation of the female body, and resilience. Both also work as museum mediators at the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal. Mancy explores the presence of women’s bodies in private and public spaces, echoing issues of censorship and control in Iran. Farzaneh questions the introspective and paradoxical dimensions of the migratory experience.
Offrande au safran was presented for the first time at Orange in 2025, but they had previously presented several duo projects, notably at Projet Casa in 2024, at the Maison de la culture NDG and at the Maison des artistes francophones in Winnipeg in 2025.
Soleil Launière
Winner of Révélation Radio-Canada 2024-2025 and the Francouvertes 2024, Soleil Launière is an Innu transdisciplinary artist from Mashteuiatsh, on the shores of Lake Pekuakami, now established in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal).
In the fall of 2023, she unveiled Taueu, her very first soul-roots album with pop sounds and magnetic arrangements, which explores themes of identity, language, femininity, and matriarchy. Thanks to this landmark project, she distinguished herself in 2024 and 2025 with several prestigious nominations: Artiste autochtone de l’année and Album de l’année – langue autochtone at the ADISQ gala (2024 and 2025), Album indie-rock at the GAMIQ (2024) and the Prix découverte de la chanson francophone at the Panthéon des auteurs et compositeurs canadiens (2024).
In November 2025, she gave a captivating performance of Era Ew at the 47th ADISQ gala. On stage, accompanied by seasoned musicians from CHANCES (Chloé Lacasse, Geneviève Toupin, Vincent Carré) and Simon Walls, she combines vocal harmonies, strong percussion, and performance art to offer the audience an immersive, deep, and captivating experience.
Arcángelo Constantini
Arcángelo Constantini is an artistic inventor and technological hacker whose practice, anchored in an object-oriented ontology, has been questioning scientific and mystical paradigms for 30 years. He hacks into abandoned functional objects to engage in philosophical dialogues and builds experimental artifacts exploring gravitational and electromagnetic processes. Sound is at the heart of his approach, for its symbolic weight and its generative process.
He has worked as conservator of New Media at the Museo Tamayo Arte Greene, and at Espace indépendant 1/4, as well as the 2005 and 2009 editions of the biennial Transitio MX. He was also the curator of the inaugural event of the Fonoteca Nacional and director of Un-cuarto, an independent space dedicated to emerging transdisciplinary art. He is the director of the FACTO festival and currently co-directs the Meditatio Sonus cycle with Marcela Armas. He has received prestigious grants, notably the Rockefeller/MacArthur grant, the production grant for VIDA 11 Fundación Telefónica, the PAPIAM of the CNART and the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte (SNCA) – FONCA. S-T-Arts4Watter 2025.
Date : Thursday May 7 at 6 PM
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Audience: Everyone
Cost: Free
Move, watch, feel… and let yourself be surprised!