David Altmejd. Agora
Author: Louise Déry
Artist: David Altmejd
Publishing date: February 21, 2026
Category: exhibition catalogue
Dimensions: 43.8 × 28.6 cm, hardcover
Pages: 240, with color illustrations
Binding: Sewn case binding
Languages: French and English
Graphic design: Marc-André Roy
Price: $60 for the regular edition; $200 (special edition: 50 catalogs featuring an original hand-drawn illustration signed by the artist)
ISBN: 978-2-925187-13-4
Following on from the exhibition held at the Galerie de l’UQAM from November 7, 2025, to January 24, 2026, the publication David Altmejd. Agora focuses on heads and busts conceived by the artist as autonomous objects, independent of his large installations.
These works represent different periods, styles and techniques that characterize David Altmejd’s creative process. They reveal the artist’s vision of how beings are born and constructed, how they gather, metamorphose, disintegrate and regenerate. The works also indicate the breadth of a practice obsessed with the body and its flesh, the skull and its cavities, the eye and its connections, the hands and fingers that shape the material.
The richly illustrated catalogue not only presents the works featured in the exhibition but also includes a complete visual inventory of the nearly three hundred heads and busts created by the artist to date. An essay by curator Louise Déry, numerous quotes from David Altmejd, and several reference materials complete the publication.
