Cartes sensibles – Creative workshop inspired by playing cards
Cartes sensibles – Creative workshop inspired by playing cards
Saturday, September 27, 2025
Three time slots available
L’imprimerie, artist-run center
Registration required – 8 participants per time slot
Free activity | 16 years and over
As part of the Journées de la culture, L’imprimerie, center d’artistes, invites you to immerse yourself in the creative process of artist-in-residence Claudette Lemay. A selection of playing cards will be at your disposal. Using this unique material, you’ll be invited to explore collage and intervention on paper, giving free rein to your imagination.
Transforming a card means revealing the poetic and narrative charge hidden in an everyday object. It also means projecting your thoughts, memories and intuitions onto it. Together, we’ll reflect on the place of chance in our lives: what it breathes into us, what we read into it, how the coincidence of numbers and figures can resonate with our personal narratives.
Have you found a card that inspires an anecdote or a memory? Bring it along – it could be the starting point for your own creation!
No previous experience is required. This is not a training session, but a creative moment guided by the artist. The workshop will be held in French.
Reserve your time.
– 10am to 12pm
– 1pm to 3pm
– 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Photo credits : Katya Konioukhova
About the artist
Claudette Lemay is currently pursuing a research project in printmaking art that revolves around a collection of cards – playing cards, tarot cards and others – that she has found randomly on the street (since 1996). She has collected over a hundred to date, and is interested in their motifs, textures, traces of weathering, sometimes their symbolism, and also the place where she finds them. The artist notes coincidences, makes associations, sometimes searches for meaning. This collection questions the role of chance in our lives from a playful perspective.
For over 25 years, Claudette Lemay has been developing a body of video, audio and photographic work. More recently, she has integrated drawing, writing and printed art into her practice. Her work has been the subject of group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally (Mexico, France, Finland), and has been presented at festivals around the world. In 2011, she completed a master’s degree in visual and media arts at UQAM. She is a member of the artist-run center perte de signal, the Chaufferie/cooperative Lezarts and La Traversée – atelier de géopoétique. Originally from Quebec City, she lives and works in Montreal.
Photo credits: Katya Konioukhova
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