Le Chantier at Maison de la culture Maisonneuve !

L’imprimerie, centre d’artistes presents Chantier, a research project on the printed and photographic image
An evolving exhibition at the Maison de la culture Maisonneuve
From October 11 to November 26, 2018
Free admission
Closing ceremony on November 28, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m

With its twin identity, L’imprimerie centre d’artistes strives to build a strong and distinctive artistic vision, centred on the interdisciplinary development of the printed and photographic image. Its goal is to encourage dialogue between disciplines, and bring about changes in artistic practices that go beyond the mere mixing of technologies. L’imprimerie believes that insubordination and creative freedom are the true driving forces behind invention. In a context where the main focus is digital development, L’imprimerie has chosen to embrace the material aspect of images, and to use digital technologies as a way of updating analogue processes.

The exhibition Le Chantier, a research project on the printed and photographic image at the Maison de la culture Maisonneuve is the result of a vast research and creation project that began in the fall of 2018, bringing together artists Gwenaël Bélanger, Mathilde Forest, Mathieu Grenier, Céline Huyghebaert, Janie Julien-Fort, Camille Lamy, Stéphanie Nuckle, Eliza Olkinitskaya et Étienne Tremblay-Tardif.

The artists’ and L’imprimerie’s proposition unfolds in two separate spaces. In the main hall, Le Chantier keeps evolving throughout the whole exhibition. Several of the artists will be present to work on their installation projects and research displays. In the second hall, guest artist-curators Caroline Boileau and Stéphane Gilot , who were invited to reflect on Le Chantier‘s, collective, gathered various traces (whether artwork or artefacts) of the artists’ research into a landmap-table, a form of collective and creative act.

Gwenaël Bélanger
Materiality of the printed image / Trompe l’œil / Play on perspective / Machinations of the gaze / Fragmenting the image / Manipulation of and by the image / Photography of spaces + objects / Mise en abîme / Shifts in perception / reorganizing the commonplace

Mathilde Forest
Memory, dissolution, disappearance, destruction, replacement, fragile objects, coveted objects; material and intangible heritage; traditional techniques vs digital techniques; materiality of glass, image transformation;

Mathieu Grenier
Decomposition
Textures
Transfer
Volume
Agglomeration
Copy
Framing
Interstices
Absence
Ghost

Céline Huyghebaert
Multiple
Impossible book
Artist fiction
Artist speech
Narration
Fragment
Meeting language/visual arts
Collaboration
Community
Embossing
Imprint
Bookmark
Quote
Erasure
Scriptural imprint

Janie Julien-Fort
Autobiography, adolescence, friendship, love, womanhood, motherhood, ephemeral, permanence, fragility, precariousness, evanescence, portraits, archives, artefacts, traces, destruction, disappearance, failure, latency, past, erasure, memories, oblivion, correspondence, letters, photographs, flowers, plants, wilted, faded, immortalized, ghost, transfer, photosynthesis, Polaroid, emulsion, embossing, scratching, region, Abitibi, Rouyn-Noranda, light.

Camille Lamy
Visible / invisible, hiding, spying, keep one’s distances, binoculars, gate, walls, safety devices, surveillance, commute, daily, line, Notre-Dame Street, bike paths, waterfront, Port, river. Digital photography, livre-objet, touching images, fossils, reefs, charting, shipwrecks, solidity / fragility, blueprints, the colour blue, transparency, water, blowup, Japanese paper, folding / crumpling stones, fragments.

Stéphanie Nuckle
Urban nature — naturalized land — frontier — wastelands — potential landscape — loitering — forbidden — refuge — industrial — sheet metal — forest — fields — uncultivated — sparse — accidental — wandering — path — presence — occupation — territory — cartography — imprint — reflection — disenchantment — memory — artificial — construction — railway — architecture

Eliza Olkinitskaya
Trompe l’oeil — microcosm — macrocosm — scale — support — bacteria — sky — rust — mould — embossing — goffering — ink — lithography (slow)/ digital (fast) — working with what is there — the everyday — speeds — choice. Animated images — analogue animation — flipbook — existing images — locales and pastimes — slowness — connection to place — Moscow — attic — motion — disappearance.

Étienne Tremblay-Tardif
CURRENCY
CUT
STREAK
CROSSING-OUT
SECURITY
INFORMATION
ORNAMENTATION

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for this project.

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