CIRCUITS D’ATELIERS offers unique tours of artists’ studios in the Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve neighborhood. A unique opportunity to discover what goes on behind the scenes and immerse yourself in the production environment of our local artists!
The Guido Molinari Foundation invites you to take an exclusive tour of Louis Bouvier, Caroline Boileau and Stéphane Gilot’s studios on Saturday, July 13 at 2pm. You’ll have the opportunity to learn more about their current projects, techniques and creative process during a presentation of their respective installations.
Reservations are free but mandatory: places are limited and a meeting point will be announced only upon confirmation of your booking.
Book your tickets here: https://www.zeffy.com/fr-CA/ticketing/a6236068-620a-4759-80ed-d55a5c93b06e
Please note that this event will be held in French. To make this event accessible, we offer LSQ interpretation (francophone Quebec Sign Language). Please specify at the point indicated when booking if you wish to benefit from this service, before July 10th.
Louis Bouvier lives and works in his hometown of Montreal. He holds a Master’s degree in Visual Arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal (2015). His career has led him to present his work both nationally and internationally: Galerie de l’UQAM (Montreal 2015), Maison des Artistes Francophones (Winnipeg 2015), Centre Clark (Montreal 2017), Galerie Sans Nom (Moncton 2018), Helmut (Leipzig 2019), NARS Fondation (Brooklyn 2022) and L’Attrape-Couleurs (Lyon 2024). He has received repeated support from the Canada and Quebec Arts Councils. Like an archaeologist, his multidisciplinary work leads him to excavate temporal strata, shaping and composing his works by questioning history, fragmentation and the vestiges he discovers while exploring the material of reality.
http://louisbouvier.com/english
Working from a feminist stance, with a keen interest in health – intimate, public, social and political – Caroline Boileau creates works, often hybrids, that develop through a multidisciplinary practice of installation, drawing, video and performance.
The hybrid body, the multiple representations of the body – particularly the female body – are a recurring theme in her research, inspired by the history of art, medicine, science and current events. Working in dialogue with places and collections, communities and people, her work tends to reveal unlikely cohabitations, proposing the transformation, both poetic and political, of a shared space.
Since 1995, his work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Canada, the United States, Brazil, Belgium, Spain, Austria, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Her work is part of the Prêt d’œuvres d’art collections of the Musée national des beaux-arts de Québec, the Galerie Leonard-et-Bina-Ellen, the Brucebo Foundation, the City of Liège, the City of Montreal, as well as numerous private collections in Canada and Europe.
Recently, her work was featured in the exhibition Le septième pétale d’une tulipe-monstre at the Galerie de L’UQAM (2023), at the Galerie de l’Université de Montréal in the exhibition Les engendrements (2024), and at the Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain gallery as part of the exhibition Où l’écho précède la voix (2024).
Originally from Liège, Stéphane Gilot lives between Montreal and Liège. His multidisciplinary work combines drawing, modeling, architectural installation, video, performance and curating. His reflexive approach to the contexts of intervention and exhibition, also proposes a set of experiments on the issues raised by the protocols of interdisciplinary collaborations. Many of these projects are in fact developed from invitations to performance, sound and dance artists.
Recent projects include La doublure du monde as part of Ouvrages, Occurrence, Montreal (2023); Papvillon, La Comète, Espace 251 Nord, Liège (2019); Collision, un opéra pour demi-sous-sol, Le Lobe, Chicoutimi (2018) ; Le catalogue des futurs, Musée d’art de Joliette (2016); Pièce pour cinq interprètes, lumière rose et silence, 12e Biennale de La Havane (Cuba, 2015); Multiversité / Métacampus, Galerie de l’UQAM (2012); La Cité performative, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (2013). He is also winner of the Prix de sculpture de la Fondation Marie-Louise Jacques 2019 (Belgium) and of the 1st Prix de la création de la Ville de Liège 2022, Musée de la Boverie, Liège.
He has also exhibited in “À la recherche d’Expo 67”, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2017); “Art Toronto” (2015); “Inside / Outside” (Boston, 2015); “12 Minutes Max: Film and Performance Art Festival” (Salt Lake City, 2014); “Reverse Pedagogy”, Model Arts and Niland Gallery (Sligo, Ireland, 2009); and at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal for the Triennale Québécoise (2008) and for the solo exhibition Libre arbitre (2001); as well as for Transmediale (Berlin, 2006). In 2012, the projects La cité performative and MULTIVERSITÉ / Métacampus were published by the Galerie de l’UQAM and the Musée national des beaux-arts de Québec. The book, entitled Mondes modèles, brings together documentation of the projects as well as a retrospective overview of the practice, critical texts and an unpublished essay by Florence de Mèredieu.
Since 2013, he has been a professor at the École des arts visuels et médiatiques at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
