Festival Art Souterrain

Peep Show: Parallel loops, Porous lines
Abi Hodson

Abi Hodson is a transdisciplinary artist and facilitator living between Kjipuktuk/Halifax and Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. Their practice is grounded in fibres and collage. Through video, movement, sculpture, and zine-making, they construct a language of sensory entanglements to research the real and manufactured space between ourselves and the material world (between the tongue and what it tastes, between our bodies and the environments we build). Through their work, Abi seeks to spark curiosity, delight, and generative discordance.

Abi also facilitates spaces where participants can collaborate and play, partnering with organizations including articule, the Rainbow Refugee Association of Nova Scotia, and HOSI Salzburg. They are the recipient of the 2025 Jorisch Family Residency Award and the 2025 Elspeth McConnell Fine Arts Internship Award and have shown their work at artist-run-centres, galleries, and festivals including articule, Fonderie Darling, and Nocturne festival.

Compartmental
Po B. K. Lomami

Po B. K. Lomami (Pauline Batamu Kasiwa Lomami) is an undisciplinary artist-researcher and educator. From the Congolese diaspora in Belgium, they have been living in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal since 2017. Exploring rage and failure, Lomami’s artistic practice is articulated around the displacement of labor, the becoming of their subjectivity, and possible collective futures.

Interested in the process between action and inaction, they question people, institutions, and themselves through affection, strength, the absurd, the everyday, and data. They construct super-archives that do not fix the moment of action into a processed document but instead take the form of installative, video, sound, and electronic works that explore super-performativity as an opportunity to become sensitive to data again and to feel someone or something that is not, or is no longer, there.

Their work has been presented in Belgium, Sweden, New York, and Canada, and their texts have been published in French, Quebecois, and pan-African publications.

…and the Cosmos returns to claim its place
Tina Lam

Tina Lam, born in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal to Cambodian‑Chinese refugee parents. She holds an MFA in Creative Visual Arts (Cornell University), BFA in Studio Arts (Concordia University), and a PhD in Chemistry (McGill University).

Lam has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and was a 2024 finalist for the Prix Polygon (Conseil des arts de Montréal). Residencies include Shandaken: Storm King (NY), the NARS Foundation (NY), Sagamie (QC), and the Carving Studio & Sculpture Center (VT).

Her work has been shown across North America, recently at Ortega y Gasset Projects (NY), NARS Foundation (NY), L’Écart (Rouyn-Noranda), and Centre Sagamie (Alma). In 2025, she was a finalist for the CIBC C² Art Program (Toronto) and participated in the ARTCH Program (Montréal).