Plural Contemporary Art Fair

Grand Quai
200 rue de la Commune Ouest
Le Vieux-Port de Montréal


Plural (formerly Papier) takes place from April 21 to 23, 2023 at the Grand Quay in Montreal’s Old Port. The event will bring together over 40 Canadian contemporary art galleries.

This year we will be featuring photographs and paintings by Nelson Henricks, with works by Stephen Andrews, Michel Dumont, Gary Evans, Sadko Hadzihasanovic, Mélanie Rocan, Ho Tam, Carol Wainio and Natalie Wood amongst others. Visit us in Booth 101.

Don’t You Like the Green of A?, by Nelson Henricks, is a surrealist interpretation of the correspondences between letters of the alphabet and colours specific to Joan Mitchell’s synaesthesia, a condition in which certain stimuli provoke an additional sensory perception. The colours representing the letters A through Z were sampled from a colour chart Mitchell created to document her synaesthesia. A pattern spelling out the words “Don’t you like the green of A?” figured prominently in the accompanying multimedia installation. This phrase, quoted from a conversation Mitchell had with Yves Michaud in which she discusses her synaesthesia, is featured here.

Nelson has an exhibition at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal running until April 10. For more information please visit our website here.



Paul Petro Contemporary Art is grateful for the support of the Canada Council of the Arts.