CINDY DUMAIS, SUZY LECOMPTE , DAVID MARTINEAU LACHANCE, ARTHUR DESMARTEAUX, ALLISON MOORE: MONSTER TENSION
Multidisciplinary
September 6th – October 20th, 2018
Opening – September 6th, 5:30 pm
This exhibition brings together four artists of different mediums and backgrounds. These artists, each in their own way, create discomfort and test the limits of the “acceptable” offering both a clear-headed and idiosyncratic look at an endangered future.
Photo : Guy L’Heureux and Detail of Cupcake, Suzy Lecompte, 38″ x 48″, acrylic on canvas, 2016.
Text of Stéphanie BertrandCindy Dumais lives in Saguenay, where she pursues research in writing and visual arts. Dumais’s work is motivated by the transgression of categories ; where inner and outer worlds become interchangeable, and where the virtuality of thought and the heaviness of bodies confront each other. Her projects explore narrativity, referentiality, and the origin of ideas thus creating a unique universe, a formal and conceptual constellation foregrounding both the elasticity of space and time, and human beings’ relationship to the sacred and the supernatural. Besides her work in the field of visual arts, she is also involved with les éditions LaClignotante as publisher and author. Her work has been supported by the CALQ and the Canada Council of the Arts, and has been exhibited in Quebec and overseas.
Suzy Lecompte (1993) is an emerging artist from Montréal who works primarily in painting. She obtained a BFA from UQAM in the winter of 2018. She will be pursuing studies in sexology at UQAM in the fall of 2018. Lecompte has participated in several shows in Québec, notably the in situ exhibition Déballage (Montréal), her first solo show at O Patro Vys (Montréal), and L’affaire du 3915 rue Sainte-Catherine Est, an in situ group show pairing UQAM student with artists Christine Major, Claude Majeau, Valérie Perron, Camile de Courier de Mèré, and Marie-Pierre Théberge (Montréal).
David Martineau Lachance was born in Quebec City. He completed a BFA in Film Studies and Film Animation at Concordia University and a MA in Visual and Media Arts at UQAM in Montreal. His works are exhibited in a wide variety of institutional and independent art centers since 2012 (L’Œil de Poisson, L’Écart, MACBSP) and screened in international film festivals since 2006 (Berlin ZEBRA, Fantasia, Ottawa International Animation Festival). In parallel, he composes scores for film and designs costumes for theater (MITF New York).
Étienne Rochon (aka Arthur Desmarteaux)— Allison Moore have codirected the puppet theatre company Egotrip Productions since 2006. They also create collaborative photomontages made of found images from the internet and magazines. Desmarteaux holds an MFA from Concordia University, and Allison has a BFA from Concordia as well. They have exhibited their collaborative artworks in many galleries, including Saskatoon’s AKA in 2011, and Galerie d’art d’Outremont in 2015. Their multimedia installation Micropolis 2.0 was presented at Belém Contemporary Art Museum, in Brazil, in 2014. Moore and Desmarteaux’s shadow theatre pieces have been performed at Montreal’s Festival Phenomena, and, in 2015, they directed two music videos for singer-songwriter Julien Sagot’s Docteur C and Transsibérien.
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Image: Suzy Lecompte, Cupcake, 38″ x 48″, acrylic on canvas, 2016.