Following the call for projects of the Autorésidences initiative, artist-run centre AXENÉO7 wants to commend the exceptional quality of each application sent to us as well as thank the artists who responded — by the hundreds — to our call.
We are pleased to unveil the artists selected to participate in Autorésidences and to whom will be each granted $1,500 to encourage the improvement of their production conditions and to support the expansion of the parameters of their artistic practices and their presentations.
The programming committee decided to grant additional Autorésidences to candidacies who submitted proposals offering a reflective approach to curatorial practices.
In addition to allocating a financial contribution of $1,500 for each recipient, we remain at the disposal of each artist. We will provide them with a support structure of exchange and sharing, as well as our support in the eventual presentation of these projects in the context of future recurring events taking place at AXENÉO7, depending on the unfolding situation which for now remains uncertain.
Participants:
Benjamin J. Allard
Benjamin J. Allard is an artist, teacher, radio producer, cultural worker and a passionate reader of conceptual art. He holds a Masters in Visuals Arts from the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) as well as a Bachelors in Communication Studies from Concordia University (Montreal). His projects are collaborative, in situ or interactive, and often engages with para-artistic techniques such as advertising and interviews. Allard is interested in exploring various themes related to the political dimensions of our private lives. He recently presented his work in collaboration with the CIBL radio station (Montreal), The Institute for the Humanities (Vancouver) and the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery (Vancouver). His texts have been recently published in the magazine Inter.
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Christophe Barbeau
Christophe Barbeau is an artist and exposition curator. He obtained a Masters in Visual Studies and Curatorial Studies from the University of Toronto and holds a Bachelors in Visual Arts from Université Laval (Quebec). These past few years, he has worked on the notions of curation, on installations as a medium, and on the structure of exhibits through different re-appropriation and re-actualization strategies such as: copy, repetition, and facsimile. His present research investigates the relationship between artists and curators, aiming through a conversation with authorial intent to develop an understanding of all of its political dimensions.
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Daniel Barrow
Montreal-based artist Daniel Barrow works in video, film, printmaking and drawing, but is best known for his use of antiquated technologies, his “registered projection” installations, and his narrative performances with overhead projections. Barrow describes his performance method as a process of “creating and adapting comic narratives to manual forms of animation by projecting, layering and manipulating drawings on overhead projectors.” Barrow has exhibited widely in Canada and abroad. He has performed at The Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), PS1 Contemporary Art Center (New York), The Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s TBA festival, and the British Film Institute’s London Film Festival. Barrow is the winner of the 2010 Sobey Art Award as well as the recipient of the 2013 Glenfiddich Artist in Residence Prize.
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Adam Basanta
Born in Tel-Aviv (Israel) and raised in Vancouver, Adam Basanta lives and works in Montreal. Basanta holds a BFA in Composition from Simon Fraser University (Burnaby,
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Laure Bourgault
Laure Bourgault is an artist, researcher, and co-editor of Cigale magazine. Interested in the knotwork that ties the imaginary to the political, she reactivates archival documents in her artistic practice through the use of drawings, videos, installations, performances, and dramatic texts. In parallel with her artistic practice, Laure also researches the agency of immaterial imagery. Through this research, she wants to illuminate the manner in which artists, mystic women, or art historians have profited from their dreams, visions, or fantasies to foil logocentric models and narratives.
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Marie-France Brière
Born in Montreal in 1957, Marie-France Brière obtained a Masters in Visual Arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal. Having obtained numerous grants from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts, and recipient of the Louis Comtois Prize (Montreal) in 1996, Marie-France Brière has developed over the years a research practice based on sculpture. Through the means of various treatments or arrangements, she investigates structures which reorganize their interiors and exteriors, their surfaces and lining, in the hopes of understanding the creative tensions already magnified by the contrast of materials used. Her work demonstrates the characteristics of the materials, their capacity for transformation, for distortion, and for revelation in order to examine and understand the nature of the world.
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Emanuelle Duret
Emanuelle Duret holds a Bachelors in Visual Arts and Media from Université Laval (Quebec) as well as a Minor in Art History from the Université du Québec à Montréal where she is currently pursuing a Masters in Visual Arts and Media. Her work has been presented within artistic residences, collective exhibitions, and performances in Quebec, Montreal and Boston respectively. Her practice is anchored in an approach to photography that is both interdisciplinary and conceptual. Her recent research is interested in establishing a parallel with archival theory while creating a dialogue within photographic media to tease out anachronistic and historiographical reflections.
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Nadège Grebmeier Forget
Nagège Grebmeier Forget is an interdisciplinary artist, project coordinator, creative councillor and independent creative director who is implicated in both visual and the live arts communities. She has participated in numerous events, festivals, panels, residencies, and exhibits in Canada, the United States and Europe. She was the first performance artist to be awarded the Pierre-Ayot Prize 2019 from the city of Montreal, in partnership with the Association des Galeries d’art contemporain (AGAC). Her interdisciplinary practice is rooted in performances of long duration streamed in real-time, informed by photography and installation art. Through different modulations and hybridizations of the body, her performances unravel beauty standards and explore the effects (and affects) of the looks of others, self-judgement, and on the mechanics as public as they are intimate through which identity is deployed and affirmed. Born in 1985, the first daughter of a second-place Californian Beauty Queen from the 1960s, she lives and works in Tio’tia:ke / Mooniyang / Montreal.
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Philippe Internoscia
Philippe Internoscia creates hyperrealist 3D facsimiles of banal and surreal objects in order to subvert the heteronormative categorizations of the material world through the animation of queer objects. Internoscia’s works use dreamlike environments and figures to take advantage of the creative potential of physical and digital three-dimensional spaces. Icons and humour are often included in his scenes in a surrealist manner. Philippe Internoscia has also participated in artist residencies throughout Canada, Germany and Japan, and has exhibited his work in Canada and abroad in Brazil, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom. He has received travel and research-creation subventions from many institutions.
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Valérie Kolakis
Born in Athens (Greece), Valérie Kolakis works and lives in Montreal. Kolakis has exhibited widely in Canada, the United States, Europe and China. Her most recent exhibitions include Done with objects because things take place (Fold Gallery London), Art Rotterdam (Fold Gallery, London) Chara (Centre Diagonale, Montreal), The Duration of the Sharp Hard Outline of Things (Fold Gallery, London), and Living in a Material World (Centre Phi, Montreal). Her work was presented in The Quebec Triennial (Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal) and in 2013, she was shortlisted for the first Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Quebec) Contemporary Art Award.
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Simon Labelle
Simon Labelle is a musician and sound artist, having produced works for the Mutek and Piknik Électronik music festivals (Montreal) as well as having worked as a sound designer in the Ottawa theatre scene. He also creates improvised performances where he manipulates various objects and electronic machines to create contrasts between noise and unexpected samples.
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Maryse Larivière
In her poetry and essays, which are often autofictional, Maryse Larivière puts her own voice to the test by exceeding the opposition between affective lived experience and the symbolic construction of sexual differences. Through researching art history, she also produces analyses of artistic practices from the 1970s by examining the work of artists (Joyce Wieland, among other) who developed in parallel to the emergence of the concept of feminist writing venues within the literary scene. Her epistolary novel Orgazing, a component of the Under the Cave of Winds installation at the OPTICA — Centre d’art contemporain (Montreal), embraces an approach which reunites various referential fragments by mixing stylistic registers (poetry, theory, and autobiography).
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Manoushka Larouche
Manoushka Larouche’s work is at the juncture of photography, writing, and the intrinsic performativity of a subject’s identity. She develops her projects around the questions linked to the artist’s existential conditions, causing her to reflect on the idea of image and framing in order to then explore their limits. Her work will be soon presented at Galerie L’Escalier (Montreal), and has been shown at Galerie UQO (Gatineau) and at Circa art actuel (Montreal). She has a degree in photography and is currently completing a Masters in Visual Arts at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
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François Lemieux
François Lemieux’s artistic activities bring together practice, curation, and research in the form of installations, documents, performances, or situations which inspire collective reflection on our values, representation, community, and our relationship to norms. Since 2010, on top of his work as a visual artist, he has published Le Merle, an independent arts periodical. Founded on exchange and collaboration, this project brings together art and texts which are located somewhere between the artistic and the political.
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Chloë Lum and Yannick Desranleau
Chloë Lum and Yannick Desranleau are multidisciplinary artists who work across photography, video, installation, sound, text, and performance. In their practice, they engage with the nature of collaboration and the relationships between bodies and inanimate objects. Recently, these subjects are examined through chronic illness as alterity. They are based in Tiohtiá:ke / Montreal and have worked collaboratively since 2000.
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Lieven Meyer
Lieven Meyer lives, travels, and works between Quebec and Germany. Having grown up in East Berlin in the 1980s and 1990s, his first artistic influences were cultivated through sculpture, painting and academic drawing, followed by an autodidactic period in the North Sea throughout the 2000s. After completing a Bachelors in Contemporary Sculpture at the University of Arts of Kiel between 2009-2013, he obtained a Masters in Visual Arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal in 2016. His artistic research takes form in a multidisciplinary practice which reflects on three traditional figures in the sculptural medium: placement (territory), the monument (space) and the political issue (body). His curiosity is inspired by a sociopolitical, philosophical and historical reading of sculpture and an interest in the forms taken by economic and imperial forces within Western societies today. This process also seeks to explore representational contexts through the design of environments, places, or events.
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Didier Morelli
Presently relocated to Montreal from New York City, Didier Morelli is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Performance Studies at Northwestern University (Chicago). His live art practice includes endurance-based, contextually specific, and relational actions, while his studio-based work incorporates elements of installation, drawing, photography and video. His writing has been published in Art Journal, Canadian Theatre Review, C Magazine, and he’s currently the New York City correspondent for esse arts + opinions.
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Juan Ortiz-Apuy
Juan Ortiz-Apuy is a Canadian-Costa Rican artist who has been living and working in Montreal since 2003. His work has been exhibited across Canada and internationally in venues such as Les Abattoirs Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (France), IKEA Museum (Sweden), DHC/ART (Montreal), Owens Art Gallery (Sackville), Carleton University Art Gallery (Ottawa), MOMENTA Biennale de l’image (Montreal), Quebec City Biennial: Manif d’art 7 (Quebec), Truck Contemporary Art (Calgary), Museum London (London), Gallery 44 (Toronto), and The MacLaren Arts Centre (Barrie). His work has been reviewed in various publications such as Canadian Art, esse arts + opinions, MOMUS, The Gazette and Le Devoir. Ortiz-Apuy has completed several artist-in-residence programs, most recently at The Frans Masereel Centre (Belgium), and the Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center (Denmark).
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Isabelle Pauwels
Isabelle Pauwels is currently based in Montreal. She received a BFA from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design (Vancouver) in 2001, and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2006. In 2009 she was the inaugural winner of the Brink Award, granted to an early-career artist working in Washington, Oregon, or British Columbia. In 2013 she was a finalist for the Sobey Award. Recently Isabelle has exhibited at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery (Montreal) and at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Centre at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York).
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Marc-Alexandre Reinhardt
Marc-Alexandre Reinhardt is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and writer. He has developed his practice around working with sound, text, and images through installations and performances. He has presented his work in Québec, around Canada, in Europe, and in South America. Since 2016, he is also a member of ACTION INDIRECTE, a collective of varying composition that explores the actions that connect the art and the political. He recently published TADMOR, a poetry collection from the publisher Lézard amoureux. He lives and works between Hull and Ottawa.
