November 2022
International Digital Miniprint Exhibition 17
Transformations
Curator: Andrée Préfontaine
From November 8 to December 13, 2022, the Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle hosted the 17th edition of its International Digital Miniprint Exhibition, curated this year by artist Andrée Préfontaine.
Presented at the gallery as well as on social media, the exhibition entitled Transformations highlighted 77 works by 51 artists from the following countries: Canada, Portugal, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Latvia, Japan, Greece, Netherlands, Belgium and North Macedonia.
Since always, everything is in perpetual change: the cycle of the seasons, our bodies, etc., in fact, everything reacts to time, to the environment… Everything evolves, changes, according to a variable speed. We are surrounded by genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and our genome is now known and manipulated.
More than ever, our relationship with space is also changing. Influenced by technology, since the advent of digital, work environments are adapting to a new reality and migrating to virtual space. The same is true with our interpersonal relationships.
Even our relationship to time changes over the years! But where is the border between the ephemeral and the perpetual? What about predictable cyclical changes and those that occur without warning? Are all these transformations desirable or inevitable?
Whether it is the result of an action of exogenous (external) forces or through endogenous (internal) forces, wouldn’t the transformation be a characteristic of the living and of the importance of the dynamism of the subject/environment?
Cash prizes were awarded to the artists of the deserving works. The winners were announced on December 14 on social media and the Voix Visuelle website.
Participating artists: J. Aird-Bélanger, Canada | A. Canau, Portugal | F. Caswell-Routhier,
Canada | J. Charbonneau, Canada | R. Chevalier, Canada | D. Collet, Canada
P. Csaba, Hungary | C. Dahan, Canada | S. Daigle, Canada | L. Daigle, Canada
M. Des Aulniers, Canada | K. Dimtch, Canada | R. Dragos, Romania | A. Dworzak-Subocz, Poland | B. Elinore, Canada | L. Finet, Canada | C. Garcia Cournoyer. Canada
D. Gérin, Canada | J. Graham, Canada | I. Gremzde, Latvia | M. Grimard, Canada
M. Handfield, Canada | S. Hanji, Japan | F. Ikonomidou, Greece | R. Kempen, the Netherlands | I. Kobayashi, Japan | J. Lachapelle, Canada | M. Lapointe, Canada
D. Leclerc, Canada | E. Léger, Canada | C. Lemay, Canada | S. Mandla, Canada
S. Marchetta, Canada | M. Márquez, Canada | J. Muscat, Canada | G. Noel, Canada
M. Périat, Canada | H. Pouillon, Belgium | M. Raunik Kirkov, North Macedonia
D. Robinson, Canada | S. Roy, Canada | N. Shukralla, Canada | L. St-Jacques,
Canada | D. Starling, Canada | S. Swinimer, Canada | M. Tremblay-Gillon, Canada
V. Tytor, Canada | G. Vallée, Canada | J. Van Hees, the Netherlands | P. Walty, Canada
D. Wimalaratne, Canada
Located at 67 Beechwood Avenue (2nd floor), in Vanier, the Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday to Saturday.
Le Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle would like to thank the Ontario Arts Council, Canadian Heritage, the City of Ottawa, AGAVF, Caisse Desjardins Ontario and Marcil Lavallée for their support.
September 2022
Sophie Perry
Prémisse
From September 6 to October 11 2022, the Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle hosted the exhibition Prémisse (Premise), by Sophie Perry.
Sophie Perry trained in contortion at the Centre Régional des Arts du Cirque de Lomme, in France, then studied at the École Supérieur d’Art de Tourcoing, where she obtained her DNAP in 2016. Back in Quebec, she completed her bachelor’s degree in visual and media arts, teaching profile at UQAM in 2019. In addition to teaching in several Montreal schools, she exhibited at the Center des arts de Chicoutimi in 2020, at the Atoll center, Victoriaville in 2022 and has participated in several collaborative projects presented in France and Quebec.
Prémisse deals with the relationship between humans and cyber-machines inspired by pop culture rather than taking stock of digital technology, extrapolating to the point of absurdity the representations that we make of technological tools, like a magnifying mirror of our behaviours towards them.
Playing on popular representations of artificial intelligence, especially those explored in Hollywood movies, Prémisse questions with humor our beliefs about technology; are we not too inclined to lend these machines a form of intentionality close to our own?
Le Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle would like to thank the Ontario Arts Council, Canadian Heritage, the City of Ottawa, AGAVF, Marcil Lavallée and the Caisse Desjardins Ontario for their support.
June 2022
Curator: Valentin Bureau
Voix Jeunes Talents | Génération Visuelle
From May 28 to July 5, 2022, the Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle hosted the “Voix Jeunes Talents” exhibition, curated by Valentin Bureau.
Carried by a young generation in search of refreshing ideas and innovation, the digital arts have today become an important and flourishing current. Over the last nine years, Voix Visuelle has been organizing the “Voix Jeunes Talents” exhibition, which aims to promote young artists by providing them with professional support and a formal exhibition space in order to bring their practice to light.
Born during the rise of new technologies, these artists developed an intrinsic understanding and use of the computer language, of the different platforms and the many forms of expression available with the technology, allowing them to explore all the fields of possibilities, both in the themes addressed and in the mediums used.
Based on this fact, two questions come to mind: How the relationship between humans and technology will evolve in the coming years and, how the new generation of artists will adapt their own practice in this increasingly digitalized world?
Valentin Bureau: Curator
The opening of the exhibit was held on Thursday, June 02 2022, at 5 p.m.
Le Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle would like to thank the Ontario Arts Council, Canadian Heritage, the City of Ottawa, AGAVF, Marcil Lavallée and the Caisse Desjardins Ontario for their support.
April 2022
John Graham
Miroir ambigu
From April 12 to May 17 2022, the Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle will host the exhibition The Ambiguous mirror, by John Graham.
Multidisciplinary artist and experimental filmmaker, John Graham entwines art practices by drawing inspiration from poetic narration that he mixes with kinetic concepts in order to conceive new visual interpretations inspired, most definitely, by a surreal universe.
The exhibition features an installation of digital photo-collages with experimental dance films. The still imagery presents enigmatic visual narratives as reconfigured historic “Wild West” imagery. The 4 dreamlike videos are tinged with silent film influences. His “video-dances” are the result of collaborations from two artist residencies (Budapest and Montreal) and have been viewed in more than a hundred film festivals around the world. Each of these body of works uniquely explores the lyricism of the subconscious and the complex nature of inner knowledge.
Le Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle would like to thank the Ontario Arts Council, Canadian Heritage, the City of Ottawa, AGAVF, Marcil Lavallée and the Caisse Desjardins Ontario for their support.
January 2022
Christopher Payne
There Will Come Soft Rains
From March 1 to April 2, 2022, the Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle will host the exhibition There Will Come Soft Rains, by Christopher Payne.
The artist is an “art farmer” who probes the relationship between objects, mediation and culture. He holds an MFA from the University of Ottawa and has participated in numerous exhibitions in Canada and elsewhere. He was originally trained in cinema, then his work and interests broadened to include sound, sculpture, video art, and virtual spaces. With his exhibition, he explores the richness and emptiness left by the experience of virtual reality as well as the interrelationships that operate between a medium and its properties.
Le Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle would like to thank the Ontario Arts Council, Canadian Heritage, the City of Ottawa, AGAVF, Marcil Lavallée, Digital Arts Resource Centre and the Caisse Desjardins Ontario for their support.