Michel de Broin at Mercer Union, Alex Snukal
Uncubed Magazine
“When asked in an interview with art net Magazine about the potential for change in his work, 2007 Sobey prize winner Michel de Broin claimed, “it is probably better to not be held responsible for too much change.” For de Broin, change is inextricably linked with death; it is always involved in the degradation of finite resources “slowly forwarding us towards an inexorable end.”2but what are we to make of an artist who refuses to be held responsible for change yet whose practice centers on the sly transformation of objects and their uses?”