Dialogue of perspectives

Four winners of the Desjardin’s artistic residency call at Jano Lapin Gallery

Story by Sebastián Krieger
Translation by Juliana Zerda

These are the four winners of the Desjardin artistic residency call at Jano Lapin Gallery in Verdun. Each of them comes from a very distinct cultural and personal background, which further enriches the artistic proposal. Through their works, these women explore variable perspectives and creative approaches, offering the public a rich and multidimensional view of contemporary art. Their workshop is a place for dialogue and reflection, where differences intertwine to create a common artistic discourse that invites new ways of experiencing the world. Yet another facet of the vibrant cultural life that thrives on our Wellington.

Aurore Le Ludec

www.linktr.ee/aurorelldc
Instagram : @aurorelldc

Born in Paris, Aurore is an artist-researcher as part of the Doctorate in Art Studies and Practices at the University of Quebec in Montreal. She holds a diploma in costume-making from the Paul Poiret School of Fashion and Performing Arts and a master’s degree in research-creation in arts and international creation of the Sorbonne School of Arts. She is also a certificated textile printing expert. Her artistic and theoretical journey is marked by a deep exploration of the relationship between textiles, the body, and the expression of its interiority. For her, fabric is more than just a material; it is an extension of her own skin.

Alexandra McCormick

www.alexandramcc.com
Instagram : @alexandra_mccormick_artista

A Master in Fine Arts from the National University of Colombia, with a vast career. Having lived for the past two years in Île-des-Soeurs, her work focuses on themes related to water, landscape, and territory, though she also explores displacement, expropriation, and the fictions we accept as reality. Her work is featured in numerous art anthologies and is part of the collection of the Banco de la República de Colombia. In 2016, she was a resident at the renowned Banff Centre for Arts, thanks to a creation grant awarded by her country’s Ministry of Culture. Her techniques include installations, watercolor, invisible ink drawings, and photography. At Jano Lapin Gallery, she is working in a series of large-format watercolors.

Sarah Cloutier

Instagram : @sarazin_cloutier

This painter from Sherbrook, holds a degree from Concordia University at Montreal with a major in Fine Arts and a minor in Sociology and is currently completing a Master’s degree in Visual and Media Arts at UQAM. Her work explores the role of the materiality of painting in the age of digital media and hyper-connectivity. Her paintings show scenes where bodies accumulate, intertwine, merge and fragment. Through the practice of figurative painting, she questions the nonsensical that has become normal, and criticises the so-called normal qualities of productivity, acceleration, and innovation that structure our ways of life, highlighting their absurdity. “As a painter, I am interested in the crushing of our necks and bodies under the weight of eyes fixed on screens”, she states.

Alissa Osumi

www.alissaosumi.com
Instagram : @alissaosumi

Japanese-Brazilian artist who recently immigrated to Montreal. She finished her bachelor of Visual Arts at the Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo, with an extension in Media Aesthetics from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. Her work has been showcased in various exhibitions, including the Contemporary Art Salon of Marília and SINLOGO at Casa SINLOGO in São Paulo, Tokyo Designers Week in Japan, and YOUTH at Off The Curb Gallery in Melbourne, Australia. Her work focuses on ordinary places, which she paints with great care and attention. By exploring common spaces or objects in her art, Alissa reveals the beauty and meaning hidden in everyday life. Through the use of oil paintings to depict everyday places and objects in a slow, detailed way, the artist invites viewers to pause and reflect on the visible aspects of our shared urban reality.

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Artist’s studios opening:
Wednesday, October 30th, between 5 and 8 h.

Jano Lapin Gallery
200-3819 Promenade Wellington – https://janogallery.com
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