Dog Parc Gallery

pouf!  engages with the existing purpose and present-day users – both animal and human - of Griffintown’s Parc Gallery . In exchange for stories, historical facts and memories of Parc Gallery, Artists Cynthia Hammond and Thomas Strickland  compile a composite image of this public, green space by photographing the dogs and using their portraits (taken in the autumn of 2010) to make a public exhibition on the perimeter of the park, affixing the portraits to the chain link border that both delineates this space for dogs and acts as a link to the park’s activist history. Through the project, Dog Parc Gallery, pouf! intensifies and makes visible the importance of this place within the cultural landscape of Griffintown.