February 27, 2016
Residency : from January 15 to 22, 2016
Opening : Friday January 22, at 5pm
Original artworks will be created in response to life stories and anecdotes gathered from elders and members of Sudbury’s francophone community. Among other angles, he will look into the poetic relationship between the mines and the blueberry bushes that thrive on the Nickel city’s black rock. With an approach that alternates between fiction and reality, the fantastic and the banal, tradition and the present, this project will incorporate vernacular decorative techniques through multisensory installations and performance art interventions. As a ravaudeux d’histoires (story mender), Boudrias-Plouffe’s objective is to inspire a momentary belief in the marvellous, in the fantastic.
The artist wishes to thank Mme Jeannine Larcher-Lalande, Patrick Breton, Alice Campbell, Annette Gauthier, Gilles Jolicœur, Fernande Teed and Monique Beaudoin at the Centre de santé communautaire du Grand-Sudbury, Paul de la Riva, and the Sud-berry Bear.
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Guillaume Boudrias-Plouffe
Following an exchange with the school of Fine Arts in Bordeaux, Guillaume Boudrias-Plouffe completed his bachelor’s in Studio Art at Concordia University. Since finishing his master’s in Visual Arts at Ottawa University in 2012, he has presented a total of seven exhibitions or projects, as a solo artist or as part of a duo. He has received grants from the Conseil des arts de Longueil, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts. He was awarded de CCA’s Joseph-S.-Stauffer prize in 2013. In 2014, he assigned himself the trade of "ravaudeux d’histoireds"(story mender) for public projects presented at Fonderie Darling, 3e Impérial and DARE-DARE. The same year, his participation in the Ateliers TD workshops at L’Arsenal was noticed thanks to the documentary series Les contemporains, broadcast on ARTV, and thanks to a performance and installation he presented at the Musée d’arts contemporain de Montréal. He is now member a member of 3e Impérial’s board. He lives and works in Longueil.
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