Winter Day

Ah! how the snow has snowed!
So here we are, stuck, stalled, stumped…

But that doesn’t stop us from wishing you a merry Christmas
with the hope that the world will finally start
turning round next year.

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Project Osmose | Video mapping lights up the FestiVoix

Projection architecturale sur la Galerie du Parc de Trois-Rivières

Group exhibition
29 June – 9 July 2023

I was invited to join a collective of artists from the Mauricie region to participate in the production of Project Osmose, an immersive video mapping creation. The works were projected onto three facades of the Galerie d’art du Parc’s Manoir de Tonnancour for the duration of the FestiVoix de Trois-Rivières.

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Ma ville, mon quartier, ma rue | 6th edition

Groupe exhibition
From June to October 2023

Curated by Luc Archambault in collaboration with the Festival international de la poésie, some thirty works are presented for this 6th edition of the event.

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A Moment of Christmas Folly

Un homme et une femme lisent sur un lit placé sur un lac enneigé.

We aren’t sure if our little cat
understood the concept.
You neither?
No matter…
We wish you plenty of joy
to get through another winter!

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The Resilient Snowman

photomontage of a snowman surrounded by christmas light

Our snowman is in deep water

The hockey game has been called off

Still and all

He chances his arms

To brighten the night’s sky

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My participation in the Carbon Neutral Challenge of the Maskinongé RCM

Screen capture showing a woman talking to the camera and smiling

I was asked to represent the citizen segment of the Maskinongé MRC’s Carbon Neutral Challenge which aims to encourage local actions that tend towards carbon neutrality. I accepted to host a film crew three times during the summer to follow the progress of my efforts to grow and preserve fruits and vegetables.

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Les fleurs – My First Public Art Work

Men from behind install a huge photograph on a wall overhanging bookshelves.

I was very proud to win an acquisition competition this spring as part of the Policy for the Integration of Arts in Architecture. What a joy it was to attend, at the end of June, the hanging of my work Les fleurs at the municipal library of Saint-Bonaventure, near Drummondville.

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Beyond the Looking Glass – Centre national d’exposition

fiche exposition centre national d'exposition CNE

Solo exhibition
15 October 2020 – 28 March 2021

When the second wave of COVID hit the Saguenay region hard, the Centre national d’exposition (CNE) in Jonquière was forced to close its doors just two weeks after the opening of my exhibition Beyond the Looking Glass. The event was extended until the end of March once the ban on access to cultural venues was lifted.

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Surreal Art Video: The Murmur of the Abyss

screenshot of a video showing windows of an aquarium with a seal and a woman underwater

I had been thinking about this video for a while. The idea came to me in 2018 during my artistic residency at Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts. In addition to the photographs inspired by the Celtic tale The Seal Woman, I wanted to create a video with seals in motion.

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Santa Claus will be making it to the Moon

surreal photo of a house with Christmas decorations on the Moon

Good news:
Santa Claus will be making it to the Moon!

Amazon too, but not sure that’s worth mentioning…

One thing’s for sure, the Three Wise Men
won’t not be coming round this year.

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Northern Crossing – Peter B. Yeomans Cultural Centre

Illuminated sign in a park announcing the photo exhibit Traversée boréale in Dorval

Solo exhibition
30 November 2020 – 18 January 2021

While the installation of the exhibition at the Peter B. Yeomans Cultural Centre proceeded normally, due to the Legault government’s decision to close museums and exhibition halls during the pandemic, the City of Dorval is offering the public a 360º virtual tour accompanied by a presentation video.

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Cultural mediation activities for young audiences

Photo of a child dressed in a red hooded coat with the forest behind her

The director of the CNE, Ms. Manon Guérin, proposed that I collaborate with her team to design cultural mediation activities to accompany the photographs in my series Beyond the Looking Glass. It was the perfect opportunity to enhance this exhibition, which has already been very successful elsewhere in Quebec.

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Northern Crossing – Centre d’exposition VOART

Affiche d'exposition avec photographie d'une adolescente

Solo exhibition
9 October – 22 November 2020

In Val d’Or, I have the privilege to be showing in the beautiful main exhibition space of VOART, the municipal exhibition center. The executive director, Carmelle Adam, curated and entitled the event Les états liminaires (which roughly translates as Liminal States).

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Moving to the Country: a Dream Come True

move-country-crops

Bye bye Montreal! It was our intention to make the move, the pandemic simply speeded things up. Jean-Louis and I have left the big city and are now happy dwellers of a house in the country near Saint-Alexis-des-Monts, a parish municipality in the Mauricie region of Quebec.

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