Sophie Castonguay is interested in the different ways in which the discourse around the work is articulated; to the spectator’s habits, to seeing together, to sharing looks and to commentary as a gesture of co-production of the work. Through the creation of visual devices (paintings, photographs, videos, installations) that she stages in performance, she tries to relate the creative gesture as an act of enunciation and the interpretive activity as a gesture of co-production of the work. Castonguay thus works in the interval between the tangible image and the projected image.
During the reception that will follow the GNO’s Annual General Assembly, Castonguay will prepare a performance conversation during the meal. It is through sentences that the guests will have to read aloud that she will try to transform the words of the participants.
Sophie Castonguay
Sophie Castonguay lives and works in Montreal. Her work was presented in several exhibition spaces in Quebec (Dazibao, Dare Dare, AxeNéo 7, Praxis, Langage Plus, L'oeil de Poisson, Skol, Clark), in Toronto (Fado Performance Art Center) and in Europe (FIAC in Paris, Projektraum M54 in Basel, MBA in Angers). She is currently pursuing doctoral studies in Arts Studies and Practices at the University of Quebec in Montreal.
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