Mentana\Bélanger\Sainte-Alexandre
Gern en Regalia•Jun 25, 2026 — Aug 30, 2026
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Sophie présente Mentana\Bélanger\Sainte-Alexandre
With works by Betty Goodwin (1923-2008), Alexa Hawksworth (1994), and Irene F. Whittome (1942).
Strolling through Montreal streets, in and out of its buildings, peeking through windows, dishes left on the table, reconfigured studios, home addresses that read like dates.
As summer begins and temperatures shift, I catch myself time-jumping, trying to make sense of wh4tever turm0il.
After exchanging ideas for this show during a studio visit together, Alexa Hawksworth found herself walking on Bélanger, where she stumbled upon the 2025 door. Something amusing about an address that reads like a year. In 2025 Bélanger (2026), the door is the literal portal that it is, vivid and turbulent, as if something had split between one moment and the next.
Maybe if you’d get in, you’d end up in Betty Goodwin’s Mentana Street Project (1979). For two months, Goodwin refashioned an empty ground-floor apartment in a building owned by her then gallerist, Roger…
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Mentana\Bélanger\Sainte-Alexandre
Gern en Regalia•Jun 25, 2026 — Aug 30, 2026
Press Release
Sophie présente Mentana\Bélanger\Sainte-Alexandre
With works by Betty Goodwin (1923-2008), Alexa Hawksworth (1994), and Irene F. Whittome (1942).
Strolling through Montreal streets, in and out of its buildings, peeking through windows, dishes left on the table, reconfigured studios, home addresses that read like dates.
As summer begins and temperatures shift, I catch myself time-jumping, trying to make sense of wh4tever turm0il.
After exchanging ideas for this show during a studio visit together, Alexa Hawksworth found herself walking on Bélanger, where she stumbled upon the 2025 door. Something amusing about an address that reads like a year. In 2025 Bélanger (2026), the door is the literal portal that it is, vivid and turbulent, as if something had split between one moment and the next.
Maybe if you’d get in, you’d end up in Betty Goodwin’s Mentana Street Project (1979). For two months, Goodwin refashioned an empty ground-floor apartment in a building owned by her then gallerist, Roger…



















































































