Vida Simon & Jack Stanley
Carried Away: The Fruit Outside of the Frame

Carried Away: The Fruit Outside of the Frame, at the Cinémathèque québécoise, is part of an ongoing series of installations and live drawing performances by Vida Simon and Jack Stanley. In residency at the Cinémathèque for much of 2022, Simon and Stanley presented an introductory performance on June 10 of that year, followed by an exhibition and a series of five performances in January 2023.

Together since their studies at NSCAD University, Simon and Stanley have consistently maintained a goal of intermingling their lives with art. In the past this resolve has included opening their Montréal home to artists to use as a gallery and site of research (a room under the stairs, 1996 — 2000). This experience led to Souffles (2002 — 08), an exhibition and event space in a former sewing factory where the couple also lived. When they returned to Montréal after several years in Newfoundland, Simon invited Stanley to integrate his burgeoning interests in theory and practice into a new idea she had for a performance. Together they decided that Simon would draw and Stanley would bear witness to this activity, intervening physically or through writing.