Thursday July 16th, 6 pm
Meet the visual artists Maude Arès and Anne-Marie Proulx for a guided tour of the exhibition Vent bleu.. They both present artworks resonating with the wind – this quiet, sometimes unpredictable force that is hard to capture. Learn more about their artistic process in a relaxed atmosphere where tea will be offered.
In French. Approximately 50 minutes.
Free, no registration required.
Maude Arès is an interdisciplinary artist. Spanning installation, sculpture, performance, set design, and drawing, her artistic practice explores the subtle relationships between found materials. Through the arrangement of these materials, her work creates vulnerable environments that invite viewers to pay attention to the subtleties of the tangible world. Maude explores her reflections on the performance of materials and the gestures that animate them in projects that blend visual and performing arts. By focusing on the weight and activities of materials, she observes the visible and invisible interdependencies linking human and non-human beings. Her solo and collaborative projects have been presented in Canada and Colombia at artist-run centers and theaters (Théâtre La Chapelle, B-312, Tangente, Théâtre Aux Écuries, CIRCA, Galerie de l’UQAM, Campos de Gutiérrez, Grantham Foundation, Adélard, CUAG, Galerie Foreman) and at various events (OFFTA, Nuit Blanche in Montreal, ORANGE—Sainte-Hyacinthe’s Contemporary Art Event, Mois Multi, Chromatic, OUF!—Festival Off Casteliers).
Drawing on her dialogues with places and language, Anne-Marie Proulx creates a poetic body of work that explores our connections—both intimate and collective—to the environments we inhabit. Primarily photographic, her practice extends to text, sound, and video, taking shape in immersive installations and artist books. These works examine the spaces—both physical and symbolic—that we occupy and which, in turn, shape us.
Her recent projects focus on reciprocal relationships with living beings and natural environments, fueled by collaborative approaches involving both people and natural forces. Friendship, dialogue, and complicity are at the heart of her creative process.
Her work has been exhibited primarily in Quebec, but also in Canada, France, England, and Austria. Her photo book Le jardin d’après was published by Éditions Loco in 2021. Her works are included in the collections of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Hydro-Québec, Méduse, and the City of Montreal. She is the recipient of the CALQ Award—Artist of the Year in Chaudière-Appalaches (2025) and the Contemporary Art Award from the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (2025), and was a finalist for the Lynne-Cohen Award (2019) and the Videre Creation Award in Visual Arts (2018, 2025) . She holds a master’s degree in art history from Concordia University, where she also completed a bachelor’s degree in visual arts that she had begun at NSCAD University. Active in her community, she has served since 2014 as co-artistic director of VU, a center for the dissemination and production of photography. She lives and works between Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies and Quebec City, along the great river where she grew up and whose banks have been frequented for millennia by the Wendat, Wolastoqiyik, Innu, Abenaki, and Atikamekw peoples.
