Nicolas Lévesque
My photography and film practice consists or studies that are at once identitarian, social and cultural. It usually involves portraits of individuals or groups who carry on in their spaces. With the aim of creating a relationship with the other, the documentary approach allows me to intrude into the subject's life. I disrupt their everyday life, I document an everyday transformed by the presence of the film crew and the documentary apparatus, and this intervention inherently testifies to my own presence.
Nicolas Lévesque's photographic work has been the subject of exhibitions and award-winning publishing projects such as Lutte (Editions La Peuplade) and Derniers Souverains (Editions Poètes de Brousse). His documentary film In guns we trust won the award for best short film at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2013, as Interview with a Free Man also did in 2015, a National Film Board of Canada production. After his Chasseurs de phoques (2018), he directed his first feature documentary, Les libres (2020), which follows the release of prisoners in search of a new life, in a wood factory. Since 2010, he has collaborated with Télé-Québec, TV5, RDI and Radio-Canada (CBC) in the documentary production field.
Charles-Frédérick Ouellet
By way of photography Ouellet's work explores the representational fields of memory, historical sites and identity. Born of a crossover between a documentary and fictional approach, his work takes shape in fieldwork in which geographical, movements and constructions of the imaginary are embedded. His artistic research is embodied in a practice that combines photography, installation and publishing.
The artist is the author of 4 photography books, the most recent of which was published by Éditions Filigranes. His work has been exhibited in more than fifteen exhibition centres in Quebec (VU, Regart, Espace F, La maison de la culture Frontenac, Les rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie, La maison de la littérature, Foire PAPIER, Foire en art actuel de Québec), in Scotland at Street Level Photoworks and in France. His practice has been supported by grants from the Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts, and his work is included in several public and private collections.
