by Heidi Craig
French Fourch will launch T, a t-shirt exhibition and silent auction, on Friday, July 30th at SNAP! Gallery. The Franco-Belgian-Canadian zine makers collaborated with 30 young artists (graphic artists, photographers, painters, and graffiti artists) to create wearable art out of the humblest of sartorial mediums: the basic white tee.  The idea was to use the shirt as a credible artistic material as a means of injecting art into everyday life. Each shirt was specially created for the event, on blank tees provided by Québécois cotton purveyorBlank. Artists were free on subjects and techniques, with the knowledge that, after gallery time, the second life of the works would be in the street. A silent auction will be held during the vernissage, allowing audience members to bid on and buy the shirts they like best.

French Fourch promises a “classic party with tons of friends, cheap beers, cheap jokes, weird dance and free boobs.”

9pm – 1am. SNAP! Gallery – 4064 St Laurent.