Biography

Amélie Jodoin obtained a Bachelor’s in visual and media arts from UQAM in 2016. She was part of the first edition of ARTCH (2018), and did an artist residency in Finland in 2019 for which she received a grant from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. Her first solo exhibition in 2020 at Galerie AVE (Montreal) presented a body of work inspired by Finnish landscapes. Group exhibitions she has participated in over the past few years include Z Art Space (Montréal), Jano Lapin (Montréal), The Tub Hackney (London, UK), Les Impatients’ annual Parle-moi d’amour (Montréal). Her work can be found in several collections, including the City of Laval and the Sud-Ouest borough of Montréal. Amélie Jodoin lives and works in Montréal.

Artistic Approach

Looking on in amusement at my surroundings, I am interested in modifying and transforming existing images. For the past years, I have focused on the metamorphosis of the landscapes in which I find myself. I consider the pictorial quality of my environment: its colours, composition, textures and objects. By extracting certain elements from the landscapes and by introducing incongruous ones into them, I produce fictional scenes based on reality, in which familiar objects are placed in unexpected ways in the style of site-specific art, which leads to new narratives.

Biography

In his recent research, through different types of mediums including photography, sculpture and installation, Yann Pocreau is interested in light as a living subject and its effect on the narrative of images. The artist has participated in several Canadian, American and European exhibitions including the Rencontres photographiques d’Arles. His works are present in the collections of the National Bank of Canada, Hydro-Québec, Desjardins, the City of Montreal, the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée d’art de Joliette and the Galerie de l’UQAM. He lives and works in Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang / Montreal and is represented by Galerie Blouin Division.

Artistic Approach

For fifteen years now, Yann Pocreau’s research has been driven by the application of his photographic thinking to the multiple definitions of light that he explores through several mediums including image, sculpture and installation. This light, its narrative contribution to the reading of images and the history of photography are therefore increasingly part of his vocabulary. He is interested in evaluating how light impacts the visibility of the world we inhabit, and the ways in which it is recorded. Thus, Yann Pocreau is greatly interested in light, its materiality, what it knows, informs or affects it.

Biography

Manon De Pauw‘s (1971) artwork has been shown in many exhibitions and festivals here and abroad and are part of several private, corporate and museum collections, such as the MAC, the MNBAQ and the Montréal-Trudeau airport. She has performed at Usine C and Agora de la danse and has toured in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Mexico. Winner of the CAC’s Victor-Martyn-Lynch-Staunton Award in 2011, she was the Quebec finalist for the 2012 Sobey Art Award.
Originally from Victoriaville, she lives in Montreal and is a professor at the School of Visual and Media Arts at UQAM.

Artistic Approach

In an attitude of intuitive discovery, Manon De Pauw focuses on what emerges under the eye of the camera.

The manifest presence of the body at work, the link between micro and macro, as well as light as a source of affect, are at the heart of her practice.

In addition to her photographic and video projects, she regularly collaborates with artists in dance, theater, literature, media arts and music, thus developing a unique approach to the performed image.

The Permutations series is an excerpt from Lumière sur l’art 2018-2019, a public art project presented by the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec in collaboration with the SDC Montcalm.