Judith Bellavance's and Yannick De Serre's practices intersect along numerous lines, particularly in regards to the attention they pay to details, the passage of time, unusual materials—wings torn from dead flies, horsehairs, dried flowers, old tools, ashes. One uses found objects to make contemporary still lifes, while the other commemorates important moments of life, of his life.
Pascale Beaudet, Ph. D.
Judith Bellavance
Having at first worked with painting as her chosen medium, Judith now practices photography with her expertise as a painter. She collect textures and objects in order to put together what can be called a sort of repertory of the ordinary and of desire. She draws on this to develop her works and to tell intimate and enigmatic stories about themes of otherness, loss, absence and duration. By way of painstaking and touching details, objects and bodies are revealed with finesse in each of her works and their spatial displays. Judith shows and tells everything all at once. Her artistic work is also influenced by her work as a mortician. This close contact with mourning provides her access to many rituals to be discovered, explored and invented around the experience of loss, which is inevitably brought to view in her creative work. Judith completed a BFA at Université Laval in Quebec City. Her practice has received support from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts. Her works are also part of several public and private collections.
Yannick De Serre
Yannick explores expanded print, drawing and installation practices. He orchestrates and contrasts emotions : love-hate, life-death, absence-presence; through the encounter and installation of 2D and 3D works. In addition to this intimate and personal character, his works speak to the universality of a sensibility that is unique to each one of us. Despite the personal nature of his subjects, viewers can globally project themselves into the works and thus identify with them. His practice is influenced by his work as a nurse, as well as by a lengthy stay in the far north of Quebec. A Nordic calm and medical chaos thus permeate his work, albeit without being literally depicted within it. Fragile in appearance, he wavers between gentleness and violence. Yannick De Serre holds a BFA from Université Laval. He has exhibited across Quebec and has also taken part in major international art fairs (Foire Papier, Art Basel, TIAF, Sydney and New York). His works are part of numerous private and institutional collections. He also carried out a residency that was supported by the CLAQ and CCA at the Arteles Centre in Finland.
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Photos by Judith Bellavance
