Méduse rooftop Perched on a rooftop, the Planète 9 flag waves against the urban landscape and bears the emblematic colours of the hypothetical ninth planet of our solar system (as imagined by Amélie Laurence Fortin). Amélie Laurence Fortin, Planète 9, 2019 © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Amélie Laurence Fortin (Quebec City, Quebec) Amélie Laurence Fortin […]
Parc de l’Esplanade composante lieu historique national des Fortifications-de-Québec Shayne Dark’s Free Form in Blue is made from driftwood found in nature and assembled into a dynamic sculptural composition. Shayne Dark, Free Form in Blue, 2012, 2019 © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Shayne Dark (Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan) Born in 1952 in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, […]
Édifice Marie-Guyart The interactive sound installation her voice 1599-1672 gives back its voice to a religious artefact, a bronze bell that will resonate in the streets of Quebec. A K Dolven, her voice 1599-1672, 2018 © Renaud Philippe A K Dolven (Norway) Born in 1953 and a native of Oslo, A K Dolven studied […]
Manif d’art Window / Gallery In her Hello & Goodbye video, Kelly Mark adresses the symbolic universality of body language and expression which unites humanity beyond cultural and geographical backgrounds. Kelly Mark, Hello & Goodbye, 2018 © Renaud Philippe Kelly Mark (Welland, Ontario) Born in Welland, Nova Scotia, in 1967, Kelly Mark, holds […]
Place D’Youville Printed on outdoor structures, Meryl McMaster’s photographic universes merge her personal mythologies and indigenous heritage. Oeuvres de Meryl McMaster © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Meryl McMaster (Siksika, Ontario) Meryl McMaster, born in 1988, has a bachelor’s degree from the Ontario College of Art and Design (2010). Her work has been exhibited at the Musée […]
Monastère des Augustines Marianne Nicolson takes over a building’s glass facade by designing sinuous and dynamic compositions. Drawn from the ancestral Kwakwaka’wakw culture and pictograms, they evoke Indigenous cosmogony. © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Marianne Nicolson (Dzawada̱’enux̱w, British Columbia) Of Scottish and Dzawada’enuxw descent (British Columbia’s Kwakwaka’wakw community), Marianne Nicolson was born in 1969. […]
Parc de l’Artillerie composante du lieu historique national des Fortifications-de-Québec Show in partnership with Avatar Lowlands is a sound work that resonates inits outdoor location. The artist interprets a Scottish sea shanty that recounts the tragic farewells caused by a drowning or departure. Susan Philipsz, Lowlands (oeuvre sonore), 2010 © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Susan Philipsz […]
Maison de la littérature Printed in large format on a light box, Anne-Marie Proulx’s poetic photograph taken on the Nitanissan on the Lower North Shore bears witness to a deep and sensitive attachment to the land. Anne-Marie Proulx, Terres éloquentes, 2019 © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Anne-Marie Proulx (Quebec City, Quebec) Anne-Marie Proulx has a bachelor’s in visual […]
Terminus de la traverse (Lévis) Emblematic of Shimabuku’s playful interventions, a curious flock of swan-like pedal boats comes out of Regart in the hopes of continuing its journey to the river. Shimabuku, Swan goes to the sea, 2019 © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Shimabuku (Japan) Shimabuku, born in 1969 in Kobe, Japan, holds a degree […]
Édifice Marie-Guyart Beat Streuli acts as a chameleon by photographing anonymous pedestrians, unbeknownst to them, in their daily comings and goings amongst the perpetual buzzing of the urban jungle. Beat Streuli, Stories of the Street (Taipei Novembre 2018), 2019 © Charles-Frederick Ouellet Beat Streuli (Switzerland, Belgium) Born in 1957 in Altdorf, Switzerland, Beat […]