Hello, this is Zoe Tromblay, lead curator of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Bienvenue.

Welcome to our museum.

This audio guide for the exhibit Small Items, Big Picture features assorted works by celebrated artist Claudia Attiano.

Shortly before this exhibit opened to the public, news broke that her body was found, confirming her death after five years missing.

Across the art world, we are saddened to learn confirmation of Attiano's death, but content in finally confirming what we had long suspected.

Before the news, we had invited artists, artists, Dorian and friend of Attiano, Roy Mata Manga-Kahia, to orate this cassette.

Could have been understandable in her grief from Manga-Kahia to decline to record this audio guide after finding out the details of her colleague's death,

but Manga-Kahia agreed to uphold her obligation.

We are blessed and pleased she could do so.

The exhibit begins in the Demare Pavilion, second level.

The Artists'

Claudia Attiano was one of our new world's most respected artists.

Since the great reckoning, no one else combined skill, mechroscopic vision, and subtle political rhetoric quite like Attiano.

I would like to start this audio guide by saying she will be missed.

She has been missed for many years, really, but the pain is greater than before.

It is real now.

I didn't think.

I really didn't think.

But this is not important. My feelings are not relevant to this audio guide.

We're here simply to contemplate Claudia's work.

Painting one.

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