This book is a meeting between a visual artist and two art critics, longtime friends, who are used to writing with four hands. The book deepens the discovery of La Perrière M.'s work by exploring shared writing and images in an open and poetic way. By covering more than a decade of Véronique La Perrière M.'s drawing practice and her research through other mediums such as video and photography, Claire Caland and Émilie Granjon wanted to trace an invitation to travel. Here words dialogue with the artist's creative trajectory, open up avenues of reflection and create links with the worlds of literature, mythology and art history.
Taking a form that is more rhizomatic than linear, the reader is invited to browse through this book, in order or in disorder, surveying three territories of thought. Intertwining the chronology of production of the works, the triptych "Mirrors", "Metamorphosis", and "Worlds" weave webs of associations. Through the journey of words towards the work, the reader is invited to enter the artist's delicate and surreal universe.
Véronique La Perrière M.
Véronique La Perrière M. is a multimedia artist who lives and works in Quebec. She is co-founder of the artistic collective La Société des archives affectives, created in 2010. After completing a master's degree in visual and media arts at Université du Québec à Montréal, she obtained an interdisciplinary doctorate (PhD in Humanities - Fine Arts) from Concordia University. Her research on the unpredictability of the past and the potential of magical realism has been presented in Canada and abroad. Today, her work is included in several collections in Europe and North America.
Authors
Fabienne Claire Caland is a writer and art critic. After a doctorate in comparative literature, she has multiplied her publications - eight books, more than eighty articles. She regularly gives conferences in North America and Europe on art and mythology in the West.
Émilie Granjon is a researcher in visual semiology, essayist, art critic and independent curator. In her doctoral thesis, she focused her research on the semiogenesis of alchemical symbolism in Atalanta fugiens.
