My most recent series is a study of chance and accidents in silk-screening. I tear papers up and then print these forms into superimpositions and transparencies. The colours are improvised and I take inspiration from constructivism and abstract expressionism in painting, as well as from Nicolas de Staël, Morris Louis, and Jean-Paul-Lemieux. In the manner of the automatists, the preceding gesture creates the next one. When I print a form, it dictates the printing of the next one both in terms of the choice of colour and the choice of its transparency and placement. The various mixes used in the previous silk-screens are constantly evolving in my practice. However, the rendering is not self-referential. The human-shaped shadows evoke a certain mystery and are sometimes metamorphosed into landscapes or unknown visitors. Silk-screening is a medium that can be very precise and predictable, but I like to bypass this precision and to seek astonishment. 

Cathy Bélanger was born in 1985 in Trois-Rivières. She completed a BFA at UQTR in 2007 and her DESS in the teaching of arts at the collegial level in 2010. In 2004, she participated in her first group exhibition, which was shown, among others, at Galerie d’art du Parc in Trois-Rivières and at the Centre des arts de Shawinigan. She subsequently took part in several group exhibitions, such as the show at Galerie C.O.A in 2014, an exhibition held in parallel to the 10th Biennale d’estampe contemporaine de Trois-Rivières, as well as several projects with the artists from Atelier Presse Papier. She will be presenting a solo exhibition at this same Atelier in March 2022. Cathy Bélanger has also participated in several particular projects, such as the illustration of several beer and liquor labels, the artistic wrapping of a public piano at Moulin Seigneurial de Pointe-du-Lac park, to name but these. Finally, her prints have been acquire on many occasions by Bibliothèque des Archives nationales du Québec.