General and Artistic Director: Manon Tourigny
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 (Ciné bulles, CV photo, esse arts + opinions, Vies des arts, Espace et Inter), in addition to writing exhibition texts for various organizations (artist-run centers, exhibitions centers and museums). 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 the Regroupement de pairs des arts indépendants de recherche et d’expérimentation (REPAIRE). In 2024, she will be publishing a storybook illustrated by Fanny Mesnard, which adopts an ecofeminist perspective and questions the ways in which we occupy the land.
Administrative Assistant: Maude Levasseur
Maude Levasseur is an artist, facilitator, consultant and educator. In addition to her studies in film, literature and international law, she is a graduate of the Cultural Leadership Program at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. She has set up artistic projects in various communities and co-directed pan-Canadian laboratories around the question of beauty and creation in order to break isolation. She worked for many years as the Director of Art and Social Innovation at the National Theatre School of Canada. As an artist whose practice is rooted in co-creation and in small gestures, Maude co-founded La Société Textile, a community fiber art space. She is also co-researcher of the Art and Health axis within the Chaire de recherche en économie créative et mieux-être (CREAT).
Programming Coordinator: Amed Aroche
Amed Aroche is a visual artist, curator, and cultural worker of Cuban origin, based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal. Trained in architecture (UTH) and holding a Master’s degree in Urban Studies (INRS), his work, which spans from photography to installation, including writing and research, draws from critical fabulation, diasporic and transgeographical thought, as well as the relationships between archive, document, and fiction. His work has been presented in Havana, Montréal, and Vienna, among other places. He was one of the recipients of the démART-Mtl (2024) grant from the Conseil des arts de Montréal (CAM), through which he worked at the Centre d’art et de diffusion CLARK and curated the exhibition Nuit éternelle, désobéissance esthétique (2025) in collaboration with Projet Casa, the CCA, and the MBAM. His multidisciplinary and committed work offers a reflection on how visual and curatorial practices can open spaces for the emergence of alternative forms of collective knowledge.
Documentation Technician: Jonathan Lachance
Jonathan Lachance holds an AEC in music recording and sound reinforcement from Recording Arts Canada (2007) and a DEC in library technologies from Collège de Maisonneuve (2018). After 12 years of experience in live event production as an audio engineer, in parallel with his work as a musician, he decided to turn to library and information science. He joined Artexte in early 2018. His writings have been published in Documentation et bibliothèques, Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America, and on Artexte’s blog. As a guest speaker, he participated in the 3rd yearly conference for documentation technicians at Université de Montréal (2025).
Librarian, Collections: Léa Boisvert-Chénier
Léa Boisvert-Chénier holds a Master of Information Studies (MISt) from McGill University and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Art History at Concordia University. She is particularly interested in the intersection of knowledge and power, and in initiatives for decolonization, inclusion and resistance in libraries.
Collections Assistant, Archives: Marie-Noëlle Pelletier
Marie-Noëlle Pelletier holds a bachelor’s degree in art history from the Université de Montréal, as well as a certificate in archival studies. They are currently pursuing a Master of Information Sciences (M.S.I.) at the École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information (EBSI) of the Université de Montréal, where they are particularly interested in the outreach and reutilization of archives. Their main areas of interest are the relationships between art and archive, between archive and emotion, with an emphasis on queer perspectives.
Gallery Attendant, Communications Assistant: Kim Trudel
Kim Trudel (sher/her) is a multidisciplinary artist whose path reflects the diversity of her interests. With degrees in Communications (CVM 2012), Visual Arts (CVM 2015) and Archivistics (UdeM 2025), she also spent a few years studying print making at Concordia University. Her artistic practice focuses on the grid system and collage, always in a maximalist approach. Being part of the Montreal DIY music scene since 2015, today she’s an active member of the Do It Together collective.
Programming Project Manager: Thaylini Luz
Thaylini Luz (she/her) is a curator, researcher, and cultural worker of Brazilian origin based in Tio’tia:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal. She holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture and a graduate diploma in hybrid arts, and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in visual and media arts at UQAM, where she is developing research on collaborative processes in curating. Her transdisciplinary practice explores curating as a site for experimenting with power dynamics and participatory processes. Writer-in-residence at 3e Impérial in Granby (2024-2025), she is particularly interested in artist-run centres as laboratories of cultural democracy. She is also co-founder and board member of the non-profit organization Le Local Familial, a space for sharing around parenthood and community building.