Norme de la femme qui veut mordre dans son pain
Exhibition
Norme de la femme qui veut mordre dans son pain
Curation: le lobe
Artists: Andy Maple, Chloé Gagnon, louise Campion
20.10 – 30.12
Chicoutimi
Free
The fourth exhibition of 𝕖𝕤𝕡𝕒𝕔𝕖 𝕤𝕖𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕓𝕝𝕖 will take place at Chicoutimi at the Place du Citoyen, 155 Racine street East.
Curated by le LOBE, the exhibition « Norme de la femme qui veut mordre dans son pain » will make yo discover the work of Andy Maple, Chloé Gagnon, and Louise Campion, emerging artists in contemporary art.
ESPACE SENSIBLE is a series of outdoor exhibitions organized by ARTCH, dedicated to the dissemination of the work of emerging Quebec artists in the visual arts. Like a shelter area, these exhibitions will house the work of emerging curators, collectives and artists. ESPACE SENSIBLE aims to foster conversations between creators from different cities and promote up-and-coming artists; all with a view to the sustainability of the Quebec artistic ecosystem. The series of exhibitions takes place in particular in the cities of Quebec, Chicoutimi, Trois-Rivières, and Rivière-du-Loup and Rouyn-Noranda.
The LOBE brought together artists Andy Maple, Louise Campion and Chloé Gagnon around the theme Normes de la femme qui veut mordre dans son pain. Through their works, these artists question the place of women in the world of business, the art market and industry. It is by raising these issues, with lightness, that the artists put forward a playful critique of a society of overconsumption dominated by patriarchal standards.
Le lobe
CURATION
Open since 1993, Le LOBE is a space of artistic exploration, cultural effervescence and conviviality that mixes genres, cultures and audiences. Its focus: the spirit of curiosity in the various fields of contemporary art. The LOBE is a space for friction which is part of TOUTOUT – center for the production of contemporary art, located at 114 rue Bossé, Chicoutimi.
The mission of the artist-run center Le LOBE is to be attentive to the needs of artists within the flow of their practices and to maintain a research/creation approach. Le LOBE is developed through three complementary axes. While it mainly supports projects realized through residencies, it is also committed to promoting event-based practices and knowledge-making. Through hosting performances and vernissages that shake things up, or offering a lively and invigorating setting for discussions and lectures, le LOBE puts forth the creative potential in artistic challenges rather than that found in constancy. Inscribed in the LOBE’s DNA are the notions of counter-practices and risk-taking projects.
Andy Maple
Andy Maple lives and works in Tiohtiá:ke / Mooniyaang (Montreal), from which she positions her work as a visual artist and cultural worker. In 2020, with Alex Pouliot, she co-founded Pièce jointe, a publishing house that hopes to share artistic methodologies outside of the academic context by focusing on the research of artists in contemporary art. In her practice, Andy Maple takes a look at the divides between nature and humans within western culture. Her projects are driven by her desire to reconnect with the living, a desire that she activates through interdisciplinary strategies that entangle craft and scientific methods. More recently, her research has focused on the relationship between artisanal practices and the natural resources they make use of – taking a closer look at the interdependencies within the living that these practices can foster.
Louise Campion
Louise Campion is fascinated by the corporate world. Its aesthetic, its mindset, and its specific ways display a certain attractiveness, which she wishes to understand and question. Through her painting series Wondering if men in suits turn me on or piss me off, she explores the unofficial rules of (the yet extremely codified) office life, while simultaneously trying to understand the motivations of its participants. Campion is mainly intrigued by their ways of conceiving priorities, and their relationship to the notion of authority. She focuses her visual composition on representations of power and charisma through the body language of her characters – particularly in torso and shoulder positions and hand gestures. This creates an atmosphere of strength in her images, which she accentuates with the use of bright, contrasting colour schemes.
Chloé gagnon
Born in 1995, Chloé Gagnon is a Franco-Ontarian artist who lives and works in Tio’tia:ke (Montreal). She recently completed her MFA at UQAM, and holds a BFA from the University of Moncton, with a focus on painting and sculpture. It is through her experience as a white cisgender woman that she develops a feminist slacker approach, making her work act as a quest for agency through the transposition of collage into painting.
Chloé Gagnon is an emerging feminist painter who explores the possibilities of image cutting and collage as a form of agency and identity reconstruction. Her experiences as a cisgender woman, including the many forms of psychological and physical aggression she has lived through, serve as a catalyst for her research and practice. Art allows her to find new ways of bearing witness to insidious forms of violence.