Photo credit : Katya Konioukhova
Caroline Boileau and Adeline Rognon – Corps rêvés, corps vécus
L’imprimerie welcomes Caroline Boileau and Adeline Rognon for a research-creation residency (2024-2025)
Corps rêvés, corps vécus
Artists Caroline Boileau and Adeline Rognon explore the relationship between body and memory through the medium of paper. They experiment with a variety of creative forms, including bookbinding, sculptural books and 3D folding. On May 9, they presented the fruit of their research under the title Corps rêvés, corps vécus. This presentation was accompanied by an interactive workshop, allowing participants to learn different pop-up-inspired paper construction techniques, and experiment with new ways of materializing their own perception of the body.
Photos credit : Katya Konioukhova
Photo credit : Katya Konioukhova
Caroline Boileau is a multidisciplinary artist, independent curator and trainer living in Montreal. Working from a feminist stance, with a keen interest in health – intimate, public, social and political – she creates works, often hybrids, that develop through a multidisciplinary practice of installation, drawing, video and performance. The hybrid body, the multiple representations of the body – and of the female body in particular – is a recurring theme in her research, inspired by art history, the history of medicine, science and current events. Working in dialogue with places, collections and objects, communities and people, her work tends to reveal unlikely cohabitations, proposing the transformation, both poetic and political, of a shared space. Active in the artist-run milieu since the early 90s, she has participated in numerous residency projects, and her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Canada, the United States, Scandinavia and Europe. Her video work is distributed by GIV (Groupe intervention vidéo). Her video work is distributed by GIV [Groupe intervention vidéo] in Montreal.
Her interest in shared spaces extends to teaching through training courses for professional artists and a variety of audiences. Over the past ten years, she has offered courses in and workshops for young dropouts with Innovation Jeunes; for newcomers with Centre Turbine; for art lovers at Centre Action Centre-Ville and Centre des arts visuels de Westmount. In 2023 and 2024, she facilitated L’incubateur en commissariat de l’AGAVF, (Association des groupes en arts visuels francophones) a mentorship program for emerging artist-curators. Caroline has led working groups and discussions on practice since the founding of Le Cabinet, a photographic production space, and has continued at L’imprimerie since 2017.
Adeline Rognon was born in the last century on the shores of the Mediterranean. Her university training in visual arts and art history predestined her for teaching, but her path eventually led her to settle in Montreal, North America’s largest French-speaking city, on the banks of the St. Lawrence. In her suitcase, she carries Les Éditions du Rognon, which she founded. Defending and illustrating the French language has become her credo, while cultivating a love for slang and joual. In her fanzines, polished and refined in the manner of artist’s books, she develops an existential comic strip that questions our preconceived ideas. An internationally recognized book artist, her works are part of prestigious collections in Canada, the United States, Luxembourg, France and Monaco.
Photo credit : Katya Konioukhova
Photos credit : Katya Konioukhova
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