Caroline Fillion
A multidisciplinary artist, Caroline Fillion is originally from Saguenay. Her conceptual practice is based on symbolic conjunctions or metaphors, questioning, diverting or transgressing the traditional postulates of the art milieu. A reflection tempered in an absurd seriousness, on the methods of legitimization of Art through its institutions and on the relationship between the work, the artist and the commentary that precedes them.
She holds a master's degree in visual arts from the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, a graduate diploma in management of cultural organizations from HEC Montréal and a bachelor's degree in visual and media arts from the Université du Québec à Montreal. She has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec and has participated in several regional, national and international exhibitions and residencies. Her works appear in several private and public collections, including those of Loto-Québec.
Natascha Niederstrass
Using video, photography and installation, Natascha Niederstrass weaves references between art history, news media, crime scene and horror cinema. She emphasizes the ambiguity of signs and cultural codes accepted as truths that are deceptive and that turn out to be misleading in relation to a reality that often eludes us. Fascinated with narrative issues, she explores the possibilities offered by methods of re-enactment, skillfully operating in the margins between truth and fiction. Niederstrass often chooses to use a forensic aesthetic, for it serves both as an approachable way for the general public to pry open the often hermetic shell of contemporary art, and as a viable critical model for understanding art that relies on clues, obscurities, and residue. Niederstrass takes the viewer through the exciting process of reconstructing a story, a scene, a speculative action, or an event excluded from the “visible”.
A graduate of Concordia University in Montreal (BFA) and York University in Toronto (MFA), Natascha Niederstrass has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in galleries and artist-run centers. Her work is included in the collections of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée d'art de Joliette, the National Bank of Canada and the City of Longueuil. She has completed a residency at VU Photo in Quebec City in June 2021 to develop a new body of work that will be presented in 2022 as part of the 10th edition of the Manif d'Art de Québec. She has recently participated in a group exhibition at Atelier Presse Papier in Trois-Rivières, which presented her first artist book published by Les Éditions Rodrigol.
