{"id":74986,"date":"2022-09-26T14:31:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T18:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abitibi-temiscamingue.org\/une-tournee-automnale-des-galeries-dart-applicable-en-toutes-saisons\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T15:53:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T19:53:56","slug":"autumn-tour-visual-art-exhibitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atrat.lebleu.co\/en\/autumn-tour-visual-art-exhibitions\/","title":{"rendered":"An Autumn Tour of Visual Art Exhibitions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The rustling leaves, gentle rain, cozy sweaters, and old afternoon movies under a blanket; autumn has that touch of nostalgia. Art evokes emotions, and autumn is the perfect season for melancholy. If autumn has that effect on you too, here\u2019s a visual art circuit that\u2019s sure to make you feel something. Across five areas of Abitibi-T\u00e9miscamingue, a journey of installations, drawings, photographs, sculptures, paintings, and more awaits. Let yourself be carried by the emotions these visits inspire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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L’Abitibi-T\u00e9miscamingue sur vinyle<\/em>, by F\u00e9lix B. Desfoss\u00e9s<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Centre d\u2019art de La Sarre<\/a>
September 11 to november 28, 2025<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A music journalist since 2005, F\u00e9lix B. Desfoss\u00e9s is known for his contagious passion for music history and local cultural news. Splitting his time between Rouyn-Noranda and Montreal, he juggles research, radio segments, and projects that spotlight Quebec talent. If you listen to ICI Musique or Radio-Canada Premi\u00e8re, his voice probably rings a bell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Among his standout projects is ”L\u2019Abitibi-T\u00e9miscamingue sur vinyle”<\/a>. Launched in 2017, this installation brings the region\u2019s musical heritage back to life, especially that of Abitibi-Ouest. It features records, instruments, stage costumes, and everything that evokes the vibrant music scene from the 1940s to the 1980s. Thanks to QR codes, visitors can even listen to excerpts and immerse themselves in the sounds of the vinyl era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The exhibit highlights iconic figures like Dany Aub\u00e9, Raoul Duguay, and Diane Tell, and showcases a rich variety of styles, from rock to country. For F\u00e9lix, this project is a way to remind us that when it comes to creativity, Quebec has nothing to envy from anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With this initiative, he hopes to breathe new life into forgotten musical treasures and rekindle pride in our musical culture: a beautiful way to revisit our identity through the voices, rhythms, and stories that have shaped the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Itin\u00e9rants<\/em>, by Mary Hayes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Centre d\u2019exposition d\u2019Amos<\/a>
September 26 to November 16, 2025<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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With ”Itin\u00e9rants”<\/a>, artist Mary Hayes offers a sensitive and powerful response to the climate crisis and all it brings: war, displacement, loss, extinction. Her characters wander through a changing world, shaken by both physical and emotional upheaval. Color becomes a language, bridging the external world with our inner landscapes: our fears, hopes, moments of calm, and storms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Through her paintings, Mary Hayes tells a deeply human odyssey, a search for safety, for refuge, for a sense of \u201chome\u201d in a world in constant motion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u00c0gua Viva<\/em>, by Marcella Fran\u00e7a<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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September 26 to november 23, 2025<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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With ”\u00c1gua Viva \/ L\u2019eau vivante”<\/a>, Brazilian-Canadian artist Marcella Fran\u00e7a invites us into an immersive multimedia experience that explores our deep connection with water. Through works that are physical, metaphysical, and emotional, she encourages reflection on the climate crisis and the impact of global warming on this vital element, and on our lives. Some pieces also explore the link between the exploitation of nature and that of women\u2019s bodies, raising profound questions about respect, vulnerability, and strength.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The exhibition aims to create an emotional connection between the audience and these pressing issues, using technology as a bridge to a sensory and conscious experience. A space where water becomes a mirror, not only of the planet, but of ourselves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Un jardin la nuit<\/em>, by Caroline Hayeur and D. Kimm<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Le Centre d\u2019exposition du Rift<\/a>
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Created by photographer Caroline Hayeur and interdisciplinary artist D. Kimm, ”Un Jardin la nuit”<\/a> is an immersive exhibition where images, sound, and poetry converge. Large-scale video projections are accompanied by the dreamy, festive music of Guido Del Fabbro and a series of 26 black-and-white photographs printed on fabric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Over five years, the artists filmed the night using infrared trail cameras, capturing hundreds of hours of footage in the countryside of Montcerf (Outaouais) and in a Montreal garden. The result is a rare glimpse into nocturnal life: deer, raccoons, a fox, a rabbit, caught in their own world, as vegetation continues its cycle, far from human eyes. The whole experience unfolds as a black-and-white visual poem, sometimes surreal, where strange objects, ghostly presences, and even an animated firefly by Claude Cloutier appear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mysterious, touching, and playful, Un Jardin la nuit<\/em> invites visitors of all ages on a journey of wonder, curiosity, and that little shiver we feel when night transforms the places we thought we knew. A dreamlike experience, suspended between reality and imagination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dialogue V : art s\u00e1mi et inuit<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art de Rouyn-Noranda<\/a>
November 02 to January 12, 2025<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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For the fifth edition of the \u201cDialogue\u201d<\/a> series, co-curators Virginia Pesemapeo Bordeleau and Vanessa Bell shine a light on the work of Inuit women artists from Nunavik and S\u00e1mi women artists from the Norwegian territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To create this artistic encounter, they traveled to the S\u00e1mi D\u00e1iddaguovdd\u00e1\u0161 (S\u00e1mi Centre for Contemporary Art) in Karasjok, where they discovered the work of M\u00e1ret \u00c1nne Sara and Marte Lill Somby. Through conversations, walks on the land, and shared moments over tea or meals, a dialogue emerged with Inuit artists Niap, Prim, and Ulivia Uviluk, giving rise to a unique body of work at the crossroads of cultures and lived experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As everywhere in the world, cultures evolve, and so does art. Traditional motifs are now joined by political, environmental, and feminist concerns. This exhibition aims to go beyond clich\u00e9s and present the voices of women whose work blends innovation and tradition. At the heart of the project is the S\u00e1mi concept of daiddaduodji<\/em>, which merges traditional craft (duodji<\/em>) with contemporary art (d\u00e1idda<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dialogue V also highlights how the fate of Indigenous women is deeply tied to the lands they inhabit and the animals that share those spaces, revealing a powerful parallel between colonial history, the body, and the natural world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u00ab\u00a0My connection with Indigenous Peoples is a dream I\u2019ve cherished for decades. This visionary and unifying project fits perfectly into my path\u2014one that ventures off the beaten track, driven by a desire to break down creative boundaries and to bring people together, guide, share, and shine a light.\u00a0\u00bb<\/h2>\nJean-Claude Poitras, C.M., O.Q., ChoM, multidisciplinary designer and visual artist.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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TRESSAGES,<\/em> by Jean-Claude Poitras: Encounters with Indigenous Nations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
VOART Centre d\u2019exposition de Val-d\u2019Or<\/a>
October 10 to november 9, 2025<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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With ”TRESSAGES”<\/a>, the VOART Exhibition Centre in Val-d\u2019Or presents a unique co-creation process that brought together, over six months, artists from the 11 Indigenous Nations of Quebec alongside multidisciplinary designer and visual artist Jean-Claude Poitras and his team. Together, they explored the connections between identity, memory, culture, and haute couture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Each artist imagined a piece inspired by their personal and cultural story, which was then transformed into a fully realized work of art. The result: 11 powerful and distinctive creations that spark a dialogue between Indigenous traditions and the world of contemporary fashion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00ab My connection with Indigenous Peoples is a dream I\u2019ve cherished for decades. This visionary and unifying project fits perfectly into my path\u2014one that ventures off the beaten track, driven by a desire to break down creative boundaries and to bring people together, guide, share, and shine a light. \u00bb explains Jean-Claude Poitras, C.M., O.Q., ChoM, multidisciplinary designer and visual artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Through these works, TRESSAGES<\/em> celebrates clothing as a form of identity and artistic expression. The public is invited to discover garments that carry stories, born from the meeting of Jean-Claude Poitras\u2019s archival creations and the contemporary vision of multidisciplinary Indigenous artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An exhibition where every thread tells a story, every pattern holds a memory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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TRILOGIE<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
VOART Centre d\u2019exposition de Val-d\u2019Or<\/a>
October 10 to november 30, 2025<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Born from a partnership between the Val-d\u2019Or Conservatory of Music<\/a>, the VOART Exhibition Centre of Val-d\u2019Or<\/a>, and the Festival de contes et l\u00e9gendes en Abitibi-T\u00e9miscamingue<\/a>, ”TRILOGIE”<\/a> is a transdisciplinary project where the arts respond to one another. Each visual artwork\u2014whether pictorial, sculptural, installation-based, or digital\u2014was paired with a storyteller and a musician. Together, they brought to life five original creations where image, voice, and sound intertwine to create a unique sensory universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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During the Festival de contes et l\u00e9gendes (October 16\u201319, 2025), the works will be presented \u201cin progress,\u201d outside the walls of the exhibition centre. They will then be fully showcased at the VOART Exhibition Centre in Val-d\u2019Or.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The five artist trios in action:<\/p>\n\n\n\n