“My love story with L’imprimerie started around 2010, when the idea of creating le Cabinet was conceived by Catherine, Jacinthe, Noémie and I. The idea of ​​co-founding an artists’ center was born out of our own need to have access to a printing workshop after having completed our university degree, and the desire to share its facilities and create a community of artists. Le Cabinet has become a friendly, but at the same time extremely professional workshop for the production of large format photographs, a place dedicated to the artistic creation and sharing of experiences, mainly though the residency programs and the series of artist conferences, so inspiring! The co-founders donated thousands of hours of work before and after the center opened, donated money, equipment, and most of all, love, lots of love. For us it was a dream come true.

Well, L’imprimerie is that and much more! It was born out of a need to share resources and expertise. It was a beautiful marriage between Atelier Graff and le Cabinet. A true love story. I am so proud to have been part of this process of integration, as a member of the board of le Cabinet, and later of L’imprimerie. I know how hard the whole team has been working to make the center thrive, and I am aware of the financial difficulties that all artist centers face. No artist center nowadays, where art is considered superfluous by the political system, can survive without private funding.