The Club de prospection figurée, founded in 2020 by the artists Magali Baribeau-Marchand and Mariane Tremblay, is kicking off its activities with the research-creation project titled Entre terre et ciel. Its first phase consists of exploring the poetic relations that run through the ideas of an affective forest and perceptive acuity leading to a renewed and reenchanted imaginary of nature.
Combining art and the natural sciences, the Club de prospection figurée aims to be a doubly resonant encounter between two artists with similar practices and their member-invitees hailing from various fields of expertise. Its co-creation approach underpins a relation to our environment and the interrelated cycles that make it up, all the while upholding an introspective poetic dimension. Inspired by the correlations between the terrestrial and celestial, from the subsoil to the outer reaches of the universe, its research is composed of a body of works combining sculpture, installation, drawing, photography, video and soundworks. The construction of these works unfolds in moments of empirical and symbolic exploration, followed by reworking efforts in the studio, thus activating the fragments of the inventoried territory and their figurative signification. The Club de prospection figurée seeks to embody the value of respecting resources by way of its creation processes.
Magali Baribeau-Marchand lives in Chicoutimi, where she is currently furthering her research as part of her MFA studies at Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Her practice is mobilized around the infra-ordinary as a form of reenchantment. Over the past years, she has collaborated with various artists and carried out residencies in Québec, France and Russia. Her work has been disseminated in several exhibition sites in Québec, as well as in artistic and cultural events here and elsewhere.
Permeated by the landscapes of the Lac-Saint-Jean region where she grew up, Mariane Tremblay lives and works between Saguenay and Alma. She holds an MFA and interdisciplinary iBFA from Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Her artwork has been presented over the last decade in solo and group exhibitions, as well as in events throughout Québec. Recently, she carried out her first creative residency outside of her region, at Est-Nord-Est, on the shores of the St. Lawrence river in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli
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The Entre terre et ciel project has been made possible thanks to the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the MRC du Fjord-du-Saguenay as part of the Entente de partenariat territorial en lien avec la collectivité du Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, as well as the collaboration of Centre SAGAMIE (Alma) and Centre de production en art actuel TOUTTOUT (Saguenay). The artists extend their thanks to all the partners and collaborators who participate in the project’s various production and dissemination phases.
