Tromsø-Montréal Exchange project ( the second par of projet)
Between Prima Ink and L’Imprimerie, centre d’artistes
it is now L'imprimerie's turn to welcome the three artists from Norway in residency at L´imprimerie centre d’artistes in Montréal
KJELLAUG HATLEN LUNDE
Her research in printmaking in Montreal will be a continuation of the making af a book for an exhibition in Oslo at Norske Grafikere, jan 2023. This is already started as embroidery on the book cover, and some prints are made in a residency in april 2022 in Stuttgart at Gedok Art Studios. Her interest is doing prints of used clothes and textiles, and my hope and wish is to wright some texts to be printed on textile, as a part of this handmade book. The book is a part of the project Trykk i sanntid, containing ideas about carbon print, carbon capture and storage.
https://www.kjellaughatlenlunde.com/
TEGSON
Residency at L´imprimerie september 2022
He is a Scandinavian based artist working in the public space. With roots in Bergen's early 2000s graffiti environment, he has through the years developed a unique urban expression in abstract murals
For the past decade he has had an international focus, and based in the north Norway and the Arctic
Throughout his travels, he updated a delight in textiles and soft material. So in recent years he has worked parallel to embroidered carpets and works with contrasts between soft material and hard motifs.
During my stay in Canada, I look forward to investigating further various printing technicians and working with various martials that can be printed on. In the year that has well I have worked both with a clothing collection with the international fashion house Les Deux. And has worked with posters and prints for the visual profile of the Festival of North Norway (Festspillene I Nord Norge)
As I have a desire to learn more about how print can be transferred to different materials and how it affects my artistry.
I also want to challenge the expression in the encounter with urban technician and in the face of embroidery.
Sosiale medier: Tegson.
SILVIA ELIANA MARTINEZ
Residency at L´imprimerie september 2022
Artist statementAs a life long immigrant woman artist born in Argentina, raised in Canada and living in Norway, I try to stimulate the relationship between identity, art and territory. My work is based on information originating from distinct cultural systems. It tells a story of immigration and the effects of cultural interaction. Trained in architecture, my practice is now based in multimedia. It includes painting, photography, printmaking and installation work. A female subject is often represented interacting with a landscape amidst naïve symbols, primary colors or black and white. As part of the immigration process, learning to discriminate (new) cultural codes, words and signs involves looking twice and many more times. Similarly, I have been repeating symbols, colors, and movements for years. Adapting to a new culture also means integrating norms containing at times paradoxical modes of expression. These are found in my work in tensions between order and chaos, and constraint and freedom. For that reason, my subject’s bodies are sites of tensions, but also of significant pleasure.
This creative exploration on the theme of immigration is an opportunity to question our relationship between the self and the other, and the ways we bridge over differences on the land we share.
https://silviaem.com
Tromsø-Montréal Exchange project
Between Prima Ink and L’Imprimerie, centre d’artistes
JUNE 2022
Artists from Canada: Marie-Claude Gendron, Caroline Ariane Bergeron and Jocelyne Thibault
MARIE-CLAUDE GENDRON
ARTIST STATEMENT
Through a multidisciplinary approach in action art, visual arts and media arts, Marie-Claude Gendron attempts to identify the patterns of a community that is constantly actualized in the spheres of the public, the private and the intimate. She adopts the posture of a provisional ethnologist who bears witness to the object of her observations through a heuristic and contextual practice.
She considers the potential of the archive and the ruin by putting them into action and into space, which she sometimes presents as "tableaux vivants". Of the order of the raw commemoration, her projects highlight the inevitable transformation of the existing. She is currently interested in the multiple possibilities of the book-object and the various forms of poetry in action.
BIO
Born in Quebec City, Marie-Claude Gendron is involved in the organization of self-managed
performative events has participated in several residencies, exhibitions and events in Quebec, France, Brazil, Italy, Northern Ireland, Thailand, Mexico, Switzerland and Norway. Her work has been the subject of solo and collective presentations and she has won several prizes and creation grants. Marie-Claude Gendron holds a bachelor's degree in visual and media arts from Université Laval and a master's degree in visual and media arts from Université du Québec à Montréal.
‘Un Précis du présent’
During her residency at Prima Ink, Marie-Claude Gendron will explore the performativity of the printed image. The paper supports she will use will be made from personal archives accumulated over the last ten years in travels and multiples residencies. "Un Précis du présent" is a project that materializes her research on the notions of cycles, transformation and affects that are transposed into documents and objects.
Through a desire to recover the iconography of certain pasts, she will experiment different printing techniques with images from previous residencies and travels. She will "presentify" [1] the images by exposing them outdoors to bring in the natural elements. With the new paper supports and images, she will create artists' booklets that will be produced in several copies.
[1] To make present to the conscience what is absent or belongs to the past.
https://www.marieclaudegendron.com/
CAROLINE ARIANE BERGERON
Caroline Ariane Bergeron is a French-Canadian artist based in Montreal. She uses slow working methods, preferring analogue technologies to their contemporary equivalents. Working alternately with sculpture, installation, printed art, and artist books, she addresses the themes of language, intimacy, and resilience.
Her work is part of the Heritage Collection of Prints and Artist Books of Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec (BAnQ) and the City of Montreal Art Collection. Her work will be exhibited at the Douro Global Print Exhibition in the fall of 2022 and the 11th International Printmaking Biennial of Douro, Portugal, in 2023.
During her residency at Prima Ink, she wishes to work in relief printing on found and recycled papers. With an eco-friendly perspective and a desire to be inspired by her surroundings, she plans to re-use and re-purpose some materials found in situ in Tromsø. In the form of writings, calligraphies, and characters forming fictional alphabets, she proposes to create a set of symbols on the theme of the midnight sun, a phenomenon characteristic of the summers in northern latitudes.
info@carolinearianebergeron.com
@carolinearianebergeron
carolinearianebergeron.com
JOCELYNE THIBAULT
Jocelyne Thibault is a visual artist who lives and works in Laval (Visual and Media Arts, UQAM, 2010). Her work takes shape through the exploration of the printing, artist's book, and sculptural art forms. She is the recipient of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec–Artist of the Year, Laval 2021 award and also earned two research-creation grants for her work from the CALQ-Entente territorial Laval (2018, 2019). Her oeuvre has been exhibited in Quebec (Montreal, Laval, Trois-Rivières, Longueuil, Boucherville, Matane), Switzerland, and Spain.
At the heart of Jocelyne Thibault’s practice is a reflection on her relationship with time. She is interested in the fine line of friction that exists between moments dedicated to artistic pursuits and those devoted to domestic life. More specifically, she explores the permeability that occurs when these universes crossover. She is interested in how art brings colour to relationships, and sets up projects that highlight the process of encounter. Through fragments, sampling or accumulation, she draws on the iconography and gestures of daily life to magnify the ordinary. This aesthetic is constantly renewed through the artist's book, photography, the printing arts, and sculpture.
During her residency at Prima Ink, she will explore the printing possibilities offered by the inks and pulps of a specific daylily variety. This research will initially make it possible to better understand the effects of oxidation during drying, and the colour variations obtained through the use of different papers. Research will furthermore determine the best natural agents to combine with the natural pulps and ink in order to make them compatible with printing processes that employ dies, particularly, screen printing and lino cutting. Throughout the course of this work, the artist intends to produce a didactic notebook to summarise her analysis, so that these methods may be both accessible and reproducible.
http://www.jocelynethibault.ca
jtibo@videotron.ca