My residency at Centre SAGAMIE will be divided into two parts, exploring the animating power of printed images. For one part, I'll be working with images taken from video sequences I made a few years ago. They document hollow objects driven by the kinetic force generated by mini-explosions inside them. I'll be creating a series of printed images from these sequences. For the second part, I'll be continuing the research I started last year with microscopy and different species of testate amoebae. These unicellular organisms generate and assemble tests, vase-like shells visible under the microscope. I'll be exploring the creation of a series of images based on their multiple forms, both organic and mineral.
Originally from the Kamouraska region of Quebec, Diane Morin lives and works in Montreal. She holds a BFA from Université Laval (Art visuels,1998) and an MFA from Concordia University (Open Media, 2003). Her work has been exhibited individually and collectively in Montreal, elsewhere in Canada and abroad, notably at CIRCA (Montreal, 2013), at OBORO (Montreal, 2019), at Paved Arts (Saskatoon, 2022) and in group shows, among them Installations at Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Quebec City, 2015). She has participated in numerous artist residencies, including Opekta (Cologne, Germany, 2014), Nordisk Kunstnarsenter (Dale, Norway 2017) and DAÏMÔN (Gatineau, 2022). In 2015, she received the MNBAQ Contemporary Art Award.
