Public presentation
January 30, 2025 – 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm @ Artexte reading room
Artexte invites you to a public presentation by Fanny Latreille, researcher-in-residence at Artexte in the fall of 2024. During this event, the artist will share with the public the results of her foray into the documentary collections of our information centre.
During her residency, Latreille focused on the artist as worker, a notion that is now dissociated from the term “cultural worker,” although originally linked to creators. In her opinion, the image of the artist was somewhat tarnished by the avant-garde of the 1970s, who claimed to be part of the working class while symbolically positioning themselves above it. The goal of her residency was to explore documents from the collection that pertain to artists’ working conditions and contemporary art’s associative movements, aiming to reverse the image of the artist in order to socially recognize artists as workers among many others.
Schedule of the event:
5:30 pm: bar opens
6:00 to 6:45 pm: Fanny Latreille’s presentation
6:45 to 7:30 pm: free question period
About the artist:
Fanny Latreille was born and lives in the unceded territory known as Tiohtiá:ke / Mooniyang / Montréal. Her interdisciplinary practice revolves around a documentary approach to the exhibition. By presenting a subject in a variety of forms, she materializes a mental aggregation through which she tries to define the cultural meaning of the image. In general, her research-creation process is motivated by the relationship between culture, history, and politics. In this way, she has a marked interest in the cultural and social manifestations that take us beyond time. In 2020, Latreille earned a master’s degree in visual and media arts from UQAM. Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions, as well as in video screenings in Canada and in France, including: CEAAC (Strasbourg, FR), Galerie de l’UQAM (Montreal, QC), Centre des arts actuels Skol (Montreal, QC), Forest City Gallery (London, ON), and Langage Plus (2024). Her work has been recognized with the Omer De Serres (2012), Robert Wolfe (2013) and François-Xavier-Marange (2019) excellence grants, and has been supported by the Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec, and the Canadian Council for the Arts.