Habitat
Festival Art Souterrain
contemporary art
exhibition
from march 15 to april 6, 2025
Exhibition place
Opening Hours
Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
General admission: $13
Seniors and students (65 years +): $10.50
Children aged 6 to 18: $6.25
Family (2 adults – 2 children): $24
Children 5 years and under: free
Activities
Sunday March 30, 2025 | 1:30 PM
Opening : Échos de l’éphémère / Le littoral comme partenaire de création by the artists Monique Gagné and Hélène Trudel
April 5 1:30 p.m. – Processus et poésie
As part of their exhibition “Échos de l’éphémère”, the artists Monique Gagné and Hélène Trudel invite you to a meeting to present their creative process. They will be accompanied by the poet and writer Louise Dupré to highlight the poetry that is experienced at the heart of their work with the territory.
April 27 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Creative movement workshop (Dance workshop)
Target audience: Women aged 50 and over,
No dance prerequisites
Physical condition that allows a minimum of mobility
Number of participants: 6
Echoing their exhibition where free and improvised movement is part of their creative approach, artists Monique Gagné and Hélène Trudel will lead a creative movement workshop.
In this workshop, participants will be able to explore the joy of moving without constraints or expectations, by being guided by suggestions that will allow the exploration of movement.
In this new exhibition, the artists-in-residence Monique Gagné and Hélène Trudel explore the concept of dialogue developed over the past years, unveiling it like a photo album through photographs and videos of some of the ephemeral narrative installations created during their residencies at Sainte-Flavie, in Gaspésie, from 2017 to 2022.
Fabrics, papers, various objects, and the wind participate in the staging explored during research, improvisations, and creation, where emotion and play settle in and with the landscape. The challenge this time was to create an additional dialogue by integrating trunks and chests selected from the collections preserved in the museum’s reserve.
Due to their century, history, and wear, these artifacts are intimately linked to the idea of travel and transhumance often associated with the Saint Lawrence River. With their complicity, the artists hope to offer the public a touch of coastal poetry.
To quote the author Christian Bobin: “I believe that to inhabit the world poetically is to inhabit it also and first as a contemplative.”
Monique Gagné and Hélène Trudel (Mouvement d’Elles) are two childhood friends who met along the shores of the Saguenay River. Their paths crossed again in a gallery, and both, without knowing, had pursued careers as artists. They first collaborated on an exhibition of their respective works and discovered at that moment that their creations were connected by a common theme: the speaking body in motion. For Hélène, the clean, detailed, and precise line continues the importance of bringing forth emotion in its simplest graphic expression. To speak, to call out, to leave a trace. For Monique, it carries the symbolism of life through the shaping of paper dresses and sculpture with various materials, as well as the attention given to the details of the work in relation to the surrounding elements. To tell a story, to maintain memory, to call the gaze. The idea of creating an installation as a duo was born. The concept of dialogue imposed itself on them and became the basis of their work. With the riverbank as their playground, they create scenes in resonance with the landscape using fabrics, ropes, papers, and various objects.
