Festival Art Souterrain

As part of the 2025 edition of Art Souterrain, Hangar 7826 presents Subsidencia, the latest series of the Weigh the City project, which lists the urban transformations caused by subsidence in megacities, a work carried out by the artist since 2023.

Subsidencia stems from field research carried out in Mexico City, combining soil exploration and documentary studies in collaboration with geologists, seismologists and hydrologists. Built on the remains of an ancient dry lake, the city has long been supported by its water tables. However, intensive drainage and the weight of infrastructure make it one of the cities with the highest rate of subsidence, reaching up to 50 cm per year. This subsidence now disrupts the geological balance; causing micro-earthquakes perceptible by seismographs.

Mathilde Forest is a visual artist based in Tiohtià:ke-Mooniyang / Montreal. She holds a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Concordia University and a master’s degree in social sciences from Laval University. She is an associate researcher at the Center for Research on Innovations and Social Transformations (CRITS) at Saint Paul University in Ottawa. Her work has been presented in individual exhibitions at the Rencontres de la Photographie en Gaspésie (2018), at the Maison de la culture du Plateau-Mont-Royal (2019), Skol (2020), l’Atelier Mondial in Basel in Switzerland (2021), Occurrence (2024) and Daïmon (2025).

Since 2021, HANGAR 7826 has been an artist's studio which sporadically transforms into a contemporary art gallery. Exhibitions take place all year round, activities spill over into the alley and are open to everyone.