As occasional collaborators, Charles Sagalane and Magali Baribeau-Marchand will be working on Les Miscellanées d'une Bibliothèque de survie: 2013-2023. Their micro-publishing project consists of leaflets, which form a quilt made from damaged books that have been given refuge from the rough weather of the islands and capes. These variously crinkled, mouldy or burned fragments here become the steppingstone for a renewed writing and iconography.
Magali Baribeau-Marchand
Magali Baribeau-Marchand's practice in the visual arts field probes the infra-ordinary fabric that shapes our perception of daily life via a focus on the phenomena of appearance and disappearance that underpin it. Using her medium of choice, sculptural installation, she explores the affective and performative potential of objects, which she gathers, piles up, accumulates and organizes by hybridizing different media (kinetic elements, videographic, printed, etc.). For the past ten years, she has participated in local and international artist residencies (Caravansérail, Centre SAGAMIE, Est-Nord-Est, CALQ in Belgium, AIR Karelia in Russia and FRAC Alsace/Langage Plus in France). Her work has been exhibited in solo shows at the Centre Bang and at Langage Plus, as well as in various group shows and art events in Quebec and abroad. She was awarded the Bombardier Graduate Scholarship in Visual Arts in 2022, and recently completed a Master of Arts degree at UQAC.
Charles Sagalane
Charles Sagalane views himself as an undisciplinary writer: he cheats literature with various artistic practices, such as installation, performance, photography and Land Art. He has published seven works with La Peuplade, all of which extend beyond the book form in one way or another. As a land artist, he integrates walking, canoeing, bivouacking and wild-harvesting into his creative process. His Bibliothèque de survie, which he has been running since 2013, repurposes the practice of public lending and reading in favour of a geopoetic installation that has led to publications, interactions with the public, creative collaborations and literary experiments. In a decolonial perspective, he has been working as part of a duo with multidisciplinary artist Amélie Courtois from Mashteuiatsh. The school environment is a creative laboratory for him, one in which he carries out long-term projects at all levels (Cégep de Jonquière, Pensionnat SNM in Outremont, École Albert-Naud in Alma). His work and his interventions are disseminated in Quebec and abroad (France, Switzerland, Romania, Japan, among others). In 2022, he won the CALQ Artist of the Year award at Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean.
