Project in showcase « Les adventices »
Les adventices
In showcase from October 2021 to October 2022
On Wednesday October 26, 2022 at 5pm
L’imprimerie invites the community and its members to the end of residency presentation of the project !
Photo credit: Clara Painchaud
For its 2021-2022 programming, L’imprimerie welcomes in its Showcase the project Les adventices by artist-curator Clara Painchaud!
The plants of specific ecological landscape, such as that of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, tell a story and participate in human social life. They have the ability to connect individuals and communities. The research group composed of artist-curator Clara Painchaud and artists and researchers Madeleine Gauthier, Cristel Silva and Annie France Leclerc offers a reflection on our relationship to biodiversity in urban areas and the notion of weed. Occupying the Showcase space throughout the year individually and collectively, exploring non-toxic printing processes in particular, the artists will conduct their research with the idea of shaking our systems to create fertile and supportive reflection spaces.
Photo credit: Clara Painchaud
Clara Painchaud seeks to explore the tension between violence and gentleness in their work, as well as to discern the links between art and the mechanisms of anthropocene in their research. In their installation practice, they puts into space printed arts, ceramics, found objects and plants. They work and resides in Tiohti:áke/Mooniyang and is candidate for a master’s degree in visual and media art at UQAM. Clara was awarded the EAVM/Arprim Print Art Production Grant in 2019, the McAbee Foundation Visual Art Grant in 2020, and recently received the Marc Plamondon Sculpture and Installation Grant.
Photo credit: Sarah Boutin
A graduate of UQAM in visual and media arts, Cristel Silva is interested in the notion of territory and how it leads a reflection on individual and collective identity. Her multidisciplinary work includes the mediums of textiles, photography and installation and relates mainly to nature in metropolises as a means of fragmentation of power structures. She has participated in several group exhibitions and her works have been presented at the Jean Brillant workshops, at the GHAM & DAFE gallery, as well as the Galerie de l’UQAM. Originally from Mexico, Cristel lives and works in Montreal.
Madeleine Gauthier is a biology graduate who explores the participatory science in the context of land use and climate change. She completed her studies in biology focusing on the environment, ecology and conservation. She also completed a minor in anthropology and is particularly interested in the biocultural diversity of certain spaces; the interactions between communities and their environments, the traces they leave in the vegetation, the experiences they live there. Madeleine is currently working in collaboration with the Anicinapek community of Kitcisakik on the biocultural characterization of portage sites on their ancestral territory.
Photo credit: Clara Painchaud
Photo credit: Marie Atcheba
Annie France Leclerc is from Sainte-Blandine, near Rimouski in the Bas-Saint-Laurent. She lives and works in Tiohtiá:ke/Mooniyang, the unceded territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg peoples also know as Montreal. She grew up surrounded by the forest, which greatly influenced her relationship with the world. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Photography from Concordia University (2012) and she is finishing a Master’s degree in Visual and Media Arts at UQAM, and is a recipient of numerous scholarships.
Photo credit: Annie France Leclerc
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