Marie-France Tremblay
Le quai
Marie-France Tremblay holds a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts Education from Université Laval (2005). She is an active member of the Engramme Workshops located in Québec. She is also involved in the Colifichet collective with whom she, once a week, makes small objects sewn, cut, printed, folded or knitted. Her work has been shown in a number of exhibitions and events in Québec, notably at l’Œil de Poisson (Québec, 2011) and L’Écart (Rouyn-Noranda, 2013). In 2013, she will present a solo exhibition at Atelier Presse-Papier (Trois-Rivières) and in 2014 she will do a residency at Glasgow Print Studio.
—OPENING THURSDAY 30 MAy 2013 AT 5:00 PM
The multidisciplinary artist (drawing, print, knitting, textile…) Marie-France Tremblay presents in the small gallery room Le Quai, an in situ installation composed of a mural and a sculpture, which is part of a long-term project called Les Continents. The artist inspiration for the mural comes from everyday life. Working from photographic documentation, she uses permutation processes such as displacement, symmetry and repetition to create unique "tiles" that she then manipulates and places on the wall. The overall image represents an animated and intriguing scene where banal and disturbing actions take place. The sculptural component of the installation depicts several pikes with knitted lures in their mouth. The childlike rendering of the work contrasts with the monstrous appearance of the pikes (open bellies, multiple heads and other mutants), generating a certain tension between apparent naivety and disturbance.
Marie-France Tremblay holds a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts Education from Université Laval (2005). She is an active member of the Engramme Workshops located in Québec. She is also involved in the Colifichet collective with whom she, once a week, makes small objects sewn, cut, printed, folded or knitted. Her work has been shown in a number of exhibitions and events in Québec, notably at l’Œil de Poisson (Québec, 2011) and L’Écart (Rouyn-Noranda, 2013). In 2013, she will present a solo exhibition at Atelier Presse-Papier (Trois-Rivières) and in 2014 she will do a residency at Glasgow Print Studio.