Sylvaine Chassay Mathilde Geromin Impressions – Métissages Urbains at the Jardin du Monastère
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In partnership with Exeko
Métissages Urbains is an artist residency program in public space led by Exeko mediators. This year, the organisation is teaming up with OBORO to present a special edition of the program with artists Sylvaine Chassay and Mathilde Geromin at the Jardin du Monastère, a few blocks away from the centre.
With Exeko’s idAction Mobile mediation caravan, artists are invited to set up activities during the summer in this garden surrounded by community organisations, in a space of social cohabitation. Accompanied by two mediators from the Exeko team, Sylvaine and Mathilde will offer creative workshops relating to moving image and sound, notably with people experiencing or at risk of homelessness.
Exeko’s Métissages Urbains program provides opportunities for exchanges and encounters with citizens, and mobilizes a variety of artistic media to stimulate the development of critical thinking, raise public awareness and support social transformation with a view to greater inclusion.
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Sylvaine Chassay is an interdisciplinary artist based in Tiöhtià:ke (Montreal), whose nomadic practice focuses on encounters. Interconnection, the act of presence and transmission are at the heart of her concerns, in an approach that has been transforming itself for over 30 years. After obtaining her B.A. in Fine Arts (UQAM, 1994), she pursued post-graduate studies in France in the field of new media (École d’art de Marseille, 1996, Université Paris 8, 1999). It was in Europe, where she lived for 10 years before returning to Quebec, that she began to develop her artistic practice. Her work has been presented in several countries, including England, Denmark, Canada, Japan and Bulgaria, at in situ/in socius events, in the public square and in various venues. Preoccupied by the impact of new technologies, her research in recent years has focused more on the voice and the body, to continue to get closer to being.
Mathilde Geromin, aka lamathilde, is a French-Canadian artist based in Tiöhtià:ke (Montreal) working with video, performance, sound and XR. She holds two bachelor’s degrees in communications and cinema, as well as a master’s in linguistics. She has been an active member of the WWKA performance collective, curator (sound and video), producer and radio host. She has carried out creative residencies and her work has been presented at numerous international festivals and exhibitions, including FIFA, Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois de Montréal, MIX Brasil São Paulo in Brazil, MIX Copenhagen, the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art Argentina, the City of Women international contemporary art festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and the Women Make Waves Film festival in Taiwan. A recipient of various grants (CAC / CALQ), her workis part of collections (Universities: Concordia, McGill, Ottawa), and has received various awards, including the Prix Spécial Expérimental from the organizers of Cineffable (Paris).
