Biennale à Trois-Rivières | The print in three movements

The International Biennial of Contemporary Print in Trois-Rivières is held this summer. However, makes us discover several exceptional artists. Nevertheless, Here are three. However, three Quebecers whose work is very different from each other and who, however, have strong artistic kinship ties, which go beyond the print.

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Elmyna Bouchard. Moreover, What we become

“I do not know how you will receive it,” admits Elmyna Bouchard, whom we met at the printing house, an artist center where she works in Montreal.

In fact, sometimes Elmyna Bouchard does not even know what this piece that biennale à trois-rivières | print she begins will become, finally. For example, this panties that are made of a multitude of small impressions. Similarly, At the start, the artist poses the small stamped on paper, one by one. Similarly, And then, the work does its work and is essential. Therefore, “It’s like weaving or knitting,” she explains.

In Trois-Rivières, we discover his lithographs which represent, in whole or in part, everyday objects. For example, They are magnified. Similarly, Sometimes by technique. Similarly, as is the case for the famous panties, or by textures that come from this fascination that Elyna Bouchard maintains against the ordinary. Therefore, “Sometimes I look at beet juice. Furthermore, ” she says in her workshop, almost as a advice-that of taking the time to observe the beautiful in everything.

You can hardly see him in his work which is full of biennale à trois-rivières | print great sensitivity.

Everyday objects can take another dimension when we get older and each of our movements becomes heavier, more difficult. Furthermore, This observation has nourished his reflection. Similarly, Accept what we become difficult.

The artist also has work in the field of mental health. Moreover, which gave him great modesty in front of the other, in front of us. Consequently, She likes to evoke than to illustrate crudely. For example, Hence this reception which belongs to each person who crosses his works.

Elmyna Bouchard undertook an eco -responsible approach in his artistic practice, about seven years ago. It uses less toxic materials.

“Eco-responsibility is to make efforts,” she says. If you can find a replacement, you take it. Solutions often come from large companies, in printing for example, which must eliminate toxic solvents from its processes.

As if we needed another reason to explain this favorite for your work.

At the Biennale, the works of Elmyna Bouchard are exhibited at the old Trois-Rivières railway station.

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Valérie Guimond, What shapes us

“By giving the wood. I create an imprint that reveals its raw flesh. »»

It is the heart of this artist’s work. Dig to reveal.

Valérie Guimond is a screening workshop in screen printing and engraving at the University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières. Three of his works are presented at the Biennale. These are large wooden panels, engraved.

His work addresses hypersexualization, the one that is insidious. It is a theme that is important for her and that she exposes in an effective and unusual way. You cannot remain insensitive to its three large, dark panels. We see a young girl surrounded by an aura made of scissors, frank.

We are here in the second degree. The artist explains that over time has come to him. of course, the need to trust people who see his work. And who receive it as they can; As they want.

“All the answers are good when you look at a work,” she says.

Valérie Guimond started a work cycle a decade ago when her daughter was 8 years old. His questions arrested the mother. His work has evolved in parallel with what shaped his own child.

This series Not even a blinking is a kind of purpose, the end of an era of great transformations. The shape surprises. We may not expect this kind of pieces in a fair dedicated to the print.

“The print is a large family that includes several techniques,” explains Valérie Guimond, in a telephone interview. But what brings them together is that there will be a matrix that we are going to ink. Printing is often on paper. »»

It is therefore the beginning of the process that is presented to us here. “I designed these works not to be matrices,” says the artist, but finished works. Additionally, »»

The works of Valérie Guimond are exhibited at the Trois-Rivières park gallery.

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Stephanie biennale à trois-rivières | print Russ, What we keep

What do we keep from our past? What does that say about us?

Stephanie Russ is interested in the objects we keep of our childhood, over the years. To their value, rather sentimental for many.

It is the death of the artist’s father who is the starting point for this approach. Stephanie Russ had to have a large quantity of objects. Several pieces were broken.

“These objects reminded me of my father,” said the artist who teaches the Printed biennale à trois-rivières | print Media Department of Concordia University.

“What are we doing with these objects?” Do we have a responsibility to keep them? To pass them to others? »»

She has undertaken a process to make visual archives with objects. The approach was very personal for Stephanie Russ. Faced with the result, we can think that it may inspire several visitors, affected by this act of memory.

It is a concrete reflection in the face of our own material heritage. biennale à trois-rivières | print the one which often is worth nothing more than all the emotion that binds us to him. Which is often enormous.

At the Biennale, the works of Stephanie Russ are exhibited at the park gallery.

The International Biennale of Contemporary Trois-Rivières prints takes place until September 7.

Consult the International Biennial website of Trois-Rivières Contemporary Print