As part of Volume MTL 8
Saturday, October 4th, 2025 – 2:00 to 3:00 pm @ Casa d'Italia
At Casa d’Italia [505 Jean-Talon Street E, Montreal, H2R 1T6]
As part of the Artexte Editions launch of nos suppressions, and in partnership with Volume 8 MTL, Céline Huyghebaert and Caroline Boileau will hold an open discussion moderated by Manon Tourigny on the crucial role of collaboration, sharing, vulnerability and doubt in art-making.
Rooted in mutual exchange, les suppressions is a text and image-based project where Céline Huyghebaert outlines the story of her friendship with a fictional artist, a story fuelled by a long-standing correspondence with 51 women artists from across Quebec, and by voices, images, and documents assembled during residencies in two documentation centres—that of La Chambre blanche in 2016, and Artexte in 2018-2019. This publication is the final chapter of the project, which was initially presented as a series of exhibitions at La Chambre blanche (Quebec City, 2016), Galerie Occurrence (Montreal, 2021), Caravansérail, (Rimouski, 2024) and Artexte (Montreal, 2024).
About the participants:
Céline Huyghebaert develops her transdisciplinary body of work at the intersection of literature and visual arts. Her projects take the form of micro-publications, group workshops, collaborations, and exhibitions. In these projects, Huyghebaert weaves a tapestry of voices, both real and fictional, personal and scientific, with the goal of re-embodying that which has been forgotten or erased. Her hybrid writing style mixes text, print, collage, photo, ceramics, video and installation. She has received many honours for her work, including the Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art (2019), the Governor General’s Award (Le drap blanc, Le Quartanier, 2019) and the CALQ Artiste dans la communauté award for de tous nos corps, a book project created in collaboration with several people living with cancer (2023).
Caroline Boileau is a multidisciplinary artist, independent curator, and teacher living in Montreal. She works from a feminist position, with a particular interest in health, be it through a personal, public, social or political lens. Her artworks are often hybrid in nature, taking the form of installations, drawings, videos and performances. Through a dialogue with places, collections, objects, communities and individuals, her work unveils and showcases improbable cohabitations, and fosters the poetic and political transformation of shared spaces. Boileau has participated in many projects and residencies, and her works have been presented in solo and group shows throughout Canada, the US, Scandinavia, and Europe.
Manon Tourigny was born, lives and works in Tio’tia:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal. She holds a master’s degree in arts studies from UQAM, and is a curator and author. She is interested in video art, photography, performance and artistic practices that take place in public space. She has written numerous articles for specialized magazines, in addition to writing exhibition texts for various cultural organizations. For more than 20 years, she has been involved in the visual arts community, notably with VIVA! art action, DARE-DARE, the RCAAQ and Centre CLARK as co-general and artistic director. She is a member of REPAIRE. In 2024, she published a storybook illustrated by Fanny Mesnard, which adopts an ecofeminist perspective and questions the ways in which we occupy the land.
Book description
The publication of nos suppressions is the final iteration of a project first launched by Céline Huyghebaert in 2016. In it, she outlines the story of her friendship with a fictional artist, a story fuelled by a long-standing correspondence with 51 women artists from across Quebec, and by voices, images, and documents assembled during residencies in two documentation centres—that of La Chambre blanche in 2016, and Artexte in 2018-2019.
nos suppressions seeks to invent its own hybrid image-text form in order to recount and embody that which usually disappears without a trace. How might we make visible the gaps, the omissions, the voluntary and involuntary lacunae found in artist archives? Which erasures are on account of History, and which do we perform in our own narratives? What do we silence? What do we prevent from becoming? Huyghebaert explores these very questions, while positing doubt and vulnerability as forms of resistance.
nos suppressions is published in 300 copies by Artexte Editions. Graphic design by House9.
With contributions from:
Catherine Aboumrad, Shazia Ahmad, Maude Arès, Heidi Barkun, Judith Bellavance, Carol-Ann Belzil-Normand, Caroline Ariane Bergeron, Charlotte Biron, Caroline Boileau, Sarah Boutin, Barbara Claus, Annie Conceicao-Rivet, Julie Delporte, Cindy Dumais, Andrée-Anne Dupuis-Bourret, Rachel Echenberg, virginie fauve, Mathilde Forest, Maryse Goudreau, Angela Grauerholz, Nadège Grebmeier Forget, Julie Hétu, Emmanuelle Jacques, Janie Julien-Fort, Sophie Jodoin, Pascaline J. Knight, Camille Lamy, Véronique Lévesque-Pelletier, Jenny Lin, Yen-Chao Lin, Mélissa Longpré, Jacinthe Loranger, Sarah Madgin, China Marsot-Wood, Helena Martin Franco, Geneviève Massé, Anna Jane McIntyre, Katherine Melançon, Nicole Panneton, Marion Paquette, Celia Perrin Sidarous, Maude Pilon, Anne-Marie Proulx, Marie-Laure S. Louis, Claire Savoie, Dominique Sirois, Marie-Douce St-Jacques, Stéphanie St-Jean Aubre, Jocelyne Thibault, Sandra Volny, Pavitra Wickramasinghe.