MARTIN DÉSILETS—MICHELINE CADIEUX—MONIQUE LÉVESQUE—JEAN-ÉMILE VERDIER
Les agglomérations
- Special Activity
Micheline Cadieux is a clinical analyst in private practice as well as at the Clinique psychanalytique pour la famille du Gifric (Freudian Interdisciplinary Group for Research and Clinical and Cultural Interventions). Micheline Cadieux has also worked in the cultural field for over 20 years, mainly in the film industry. A member of the Gifric, she is responsible for the Club-Art and Lieu de passage projects.
Monique Lévesque is a psychologist and psychoanalyst affiliated with the Séminaires Psychanalytiques de Paris. She is particularly interested in the suicidal problem and the incidence of the body as a symbolic matrix in our societies. From her experience in analysis, Monique Lévesque questions and explains in her publications the Freudian contribution of the irreducible influence of unconscious inscriptions.
Martin Désilets holds a master's degree in visual arts from UQAM. His work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions in Quebec, Canada, Mexico and Lebanon, most recently in Quebec at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (2005). Martin Désilets is the recipient of the 2006 edition of the Bourse Plein-sud.
We owe the idea for this exchange to Jean-Émile Verdier, who will also be the moderator.
As part of Martin Désilets's exhibition Les agglomérations, Galerie B-312 cordially invites you to take part, on Thursday, September 28, 2006, in a talk on art, in the presence of the artist and his guests, Micheline Cadieux and Monique Lévesque.
As a prelude to the meeting, let us put forward these few words of Marie José Mondzain taken from L'image peut-elle tuer? It is up to each one to answer for the visibilities that s/he gives to see, that s/he makes known and that s/he wishes to share. It is not a question, in a policy of the visible, of counting voices, but of giving the voice the place from which it can be heard by giving the spectator the place from which he or she can respond and be heard in turn. The violence of the visible is only the disappearance of these places and thus the annihilation of the voice. ...] To think the image is to answer for the fate of violence. To accuse the image of violence at the moment when the market of the visible takes effect against freedom is to do violence to the invisible, that is, to abolish the place of the other in the construction of a "seeing together" (pp. 88 and 90). Martin Désilets, Micheline Cadieux and Monique Lévesque will introduce the meeting during the first half hour, and the following hour and a half will be entirely devoted to discussion.
