nos suppressions

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—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.