Amélie Proulx
Amélie Proulx is a material artist who lives and works in Lévis. Through the representation of iconic signs and various technological manipulations, her creations evoke the cycles of transformation of matter and a perpetual shift of meaning in the perception of natural phenomena.
She holds a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal (2006) and an MFA from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University in Halifax (2010). Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Canada, the United States, Scotland, Australia and France. In 2013, she was the recipient of the RBC Emerging Artist People's Choice Award presented at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto, and in 2016, she received the Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics presented by the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery. In 2021, she was awarded the Videre Creation Award in Visual Arts by Manif d'art. She has completed various creative residencies including the European Ceramic Work Centre (Holland, 2014) and Kohler Co. (Wisconsin, 2017) as part of the arts/industry program. She teaches ceramics at the Maison des métiers d'art de Québec and at Concordia University. She is represented by Galerie 3 in Quebec City.
Fred Laforge
Through my practice, I have a strong interest in questions of diversity and identity. This has long been expressed through in-depth research into the representation of bodily diversity (people with Down's syndrome, short stature or with various disabilities). This interest is anchored, among other things, in a reflection on commemorative statuary where I question the notion of the heroic figure and the nature of the people who are traditionally commemorated.
Perceptual issues also feed this research, which is why I am interested in the way in which the aesthetic experience encourages the viewer to observe his or her everyday reality differently. My ambition is to bear witness to the ambiguity of perception and to underline the complexity of the human experience. Representation does not only summon visual resemblance, but also a more complex sensory and cognitive experience.
Fred Laforge lives and works in Montreal. He completed a PhD in art studies and practices at the Université du Québec à Montréal in 2016. His work has been shown in Canada and abroad in several solo and group exhibitions. He has participated in the Quebec City art show, the Foire Papier, the Vrsac Biennial in Serbia and the Scope fair in New York. His work has been presented at the National Print Museum in Mexico City. Fred Laforge has received numerous grants from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and Canada as well as from the Fonds de recherche Société et culture du Québec. He has also completed several public art projects in Canada. His works are part of private and institutional collections, including the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec. He has also participated in an exhibition on body diversity during the summer of 2021 in this same museum.
