Yen-Chao Lin Andrée-Anne Roussel Double Opening

Yen-Chao Lin 林延昭 is a Taipei-born Montreal-based multidisciplinary artist. Through means of intuitive play, collaboration, scavenging and collecting, her tactile practice often incorporates various craft techniques, such as copper enamelling, metal smithing, glass, and ceramics; creating installations, sculptures, and experimental films. Yen-Chao is also a natural history enthusiast and an avid collector, gathering specimens of mineral, botanical, animal and industrial origins, working with all kinds of objects that stare at the vestiges of a recent or distant past, with a story to tell. Yen-Chao has been invited to give public presentations at Artexte (Montreal), GAX Asian Indigenous Relations in Contemporary Art (Montreal), PHI Foundation (Montreal), Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, among others. Her works have been shown at Art Metropole (Toronto), Berlinale, Centre A (Vancouver), Hong-gah Museum (Taipei), Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin), SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art (Montreal), among others. 

Andrée-Anne Roussel is a filmmaker and new media artist. Working primarily with video, her projects take the form of immersive installations and sensory films. Her artistic approach is intrinsically linked to her desire to understand the world around her. She is interested in the invisible forces that shape our universe and influence our experiences. As a result, her projects address philosophical and spiritual questions that are at the heart of the human condition, and often establish links between different, even opposing, ways of seeing the world. Her work has been presented at the Sapporo International Short Film Festival, the São Paulo International Short Film Festival and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal.