Entre-Voies
To activate the meeting of varied practices and imaginations, the curators of the Pépite & Josèphe exhibition have paired four artists with individual practices in printed art. Meeting for the first time in this particular creative context, each duo took advantage of a one-week residency at the Zocalo center in order to begin the creation of a collaborative project.
Over the last six months, Katia Gosselin, Stephanie Russ, Édith Laperrière and Jean Mailloux have pooled their know-how, their lived experiences and their unique sensitivities regarding the impact of human activity on the environment. Their work has been developed outside the traditional paths of printed art, through a particular contact with water and wood as a surface for printing and exploration. The Gosselin-Russ duo's photographic installation offers unexpected points of view, playing on the astonishing capacity of water to momentarily reflect the constantly changing environment on its surface. By converting an ordinary wooden panel into a matrix used to print their works, the Laperrière-Mailloux duo leads us to look at the remains of a landscape that has left us following the devastation caused by forest fires. .
Imprinted by the subtleties of the tangible world, these creations made in a geological era marked by the massive impact of human activities on the planet, appear as an opening between two times, two realities. Conceived at the crossroads of worlds – between flow and collapse – the entre-voies exhibition is an invitation to let ourselves be touched and transformed by the impermanent character of everything that surrounds us. Pépite & Josèphe
