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Muerteada

Lors d’une résidence du CALQ à San Agustin Etla, Oaxaca, Mexique en 2019, nous avons pris contact avec la population qui nous a fait connaître les rituels associés à la fête des morts. Puis, la pandémie nous a réfléchir à notre manière d’entrevoir notre relation...

YULÍ

YULÍ est un voyage à travers les réflexions d’une jeune fille de classe moyenne; qui, influencée par les médias d’informations, est au prise avec ses peurs et ses préjugés face à un quartier qui a une mauvaise réputation.  Le film a été réalisé avec une démarche...

Empreintes social

  Empreintes sociales   Des corps superposés s'entremêlent laissant les marques des uns sur les autres, ce sont les traces de nos cultures, les empreintes de nos influences qui se pressent sur la surface de la société. La murale Empreintes sociales est une œuvre permanente qui a...

WALK WITH ME

Cela fait maintenant quatre ans que la Colombie-Britannique fait face à une sérieuse crise d’overdoses reliées aux opioïdes, celle-ci étant même qualifiée par le gouvernement d’urgence en santé publique. Parallèlement, l’éclosion du COVID-19 a selon toute vraisemblance exacerbé la crise, les mois de mai et...

Morcha

Protest Movement / Morcha asks Mumbaikars to send an environmental message to the leaders of the world. We photographed people with their signs to create this installation of a peaceful protest. To make the installation interactive, we invite youto write your own message and be...

Hommage à Basquiat

Permanent artwork, made during a residency, in the winter of 2019, at the Du Vallon center de Papineauville in Quebec. Patrick and Miki were influenced by the words, images and collages that the students shared with them during their meetings. Tribute to Basquiat is a...

Sedan en Panorama

During a residency in February and March, Patrick Dionne and Miki Gingras created a participatory work for the 2019 Urbi & Orbi biennial. First, they met with Sedan residents to find out what elements shape their identity and sense of belonging to the place. Then, in the six...

Tracadigash

Tracadigash is a photomural and Web piece on the history of Carleton-sur-Mer to mark its 250th anni- versary. We listened to locals’ stories and anec- dotes and then used them, together with archival photos of people, the town and the Musée de la Gaspésie, to...

Arquitecturas Nómadas

In a matter of minutes, sacks of goods, packaging, wooden boxes and cases, plastic tables, metal frames, colourful tarps and arborite panels are laid out in the street,which was empty a few moments earlier. With the goods piled on the sidewalk, the vendors or marchantes,...

Algorithme

A study of the optical mechanisms whereby a sequence of still photos creates an illusion of movement. The sequences are part of the collection of images in Architectures nomades. The repetitive, meditative arrangement of the photographs is reminiscent of mandalas. Nous remercions le Conseil des arts...

Libre Comercio

The Libre Comercio exhibition forms part of Architectures Nomades, an extensive study of the disparate structures used in street vendor stalls and openair markets, or tianguis, that make up the urban landscape of various areas in Mexico City. The exhibition includes photos, as well as...

MURALES SUR L’IDENTITÉ

Photo essay/social study on identity—the family, social and cultural influences on people living in six Montreal neighbourhoods. In an increasingly globalized, stan-dardized world, people are searching for their identity and trying to set themselves apart. The murals in the Montréal Nord, Saint-Michel and Plateau Mont-Royal...

Escenario de mujer [SCENES WITH WOMEN]

A photographic exhibition featuring local women was displayed on the adobe and brick walls of San Pedro Ecatepec, a small town in the municipality of Atlangatepec, Tlaxcala state. The pictures, taken with camera obscuras, depict various domestic chores the women do every day to support...

SUEÑOS INTIMOS [INTIMATE DREAMS]

Through Letty, we get a glimpse into the lives of a group of girls born with HIV, receiving special care in La Casa De La Sal, a home in Mexico City. Using media transference, a technique they’ve applied in other projects, Patrick and Miki engaged...

HUMANIDAD

Light passes through a tiny hole and projects an upside-down image of reality. This is the principle of the camera obscura, one of the age-old devices that led to the development of photography, and which inspired this project, created with child workers in Nicaragua. In...