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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For more than 20 years, Sylvaine Chassay has been working at the crossroads of contextual and participatory art, inspired by new media. Her multiform, work takes the shape of installations, in-situ and in-socius interventions, as well as performative actions. Our Western human condition and its evolution are the central point of her preoccupation. She observes, scrutinizes and questions our lifestyle, our contradictions, and our collective and individual values, including herself in this process as much as her peers.
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).
