Ongoing
Rotchild Choisy (Moncton, NB)
March 20 to April 20, 2025
As part of Quebec-Acadia Residencies
Rotchild Choisy, Mpap fache avec pou sa ankô, 2024
A young artist who recently graduated from the Université de Moncton, Rotchild Choisy seizes on the multiplicity of media and techniques available to him in the visual arts to create vibrant, engaging works.
QUEBEC-ACADIA
RESIDENCIES
Launch on August 26, 2024
Rouge Gorge (still)
The Quebec-Acadia Residencies project will enable some fifteen artists to create and share their work from Montreal to Cap-Pelé, via Matapédia and Moncton, between August 2024 and June 2027. Gare de Matapédia - Pôle artistique et communautaire has joined forces with Fonderie Darling (Montreal), Galerie Sans Nom (Moncton) and Projet Borgitte (Cap-Pelé) to launch this unique initiative.
TRANSATLANTIC RESIDENCIES
Performance du 11 janvier 2025
Brunch du 11 janvier 2025
Lecture performée du 14 janvier 2024
Performance du 11 janvier 2025
Organized in collaboration with Montpellier's fine arts schools, Toulouse's Institut d'art et de design and Montreal's Fonderie Darling, the TransAtlantic Residencies enable young French artists to benefit from a stay in the metropolis of Montreal, before being invited to discover the magnificent Gaspésie region. Residents enjoy both an urban and rural experience of Quebec, moving from a rhythm of sustained cultural events to a period of contemplation and introspection.
INTERNATIONAL
RESIDENCIES
November 23, 2024 Brunch
December 14, 2024, Brunch
November 23, 2024 Brunch
Organized in collaboration with the Fonderie Darling, the International Residencies enable foreign artists to benefit from a stay in the Montreal metropolis, and are then invited to discover the magnificent Gaspésie region. In this way, international residents enjoy both an urban and rural experience of Quebec, moving from a rhythm of sustained cultural events to a period of contemplation and introspection.
MATAPEDIA-MONTREAL CROSS RESIDENCIES
ACTIVITIES
ARTIST RESIDENCY
The Matapédia station is a heritage building whose initial architecture is intact. It evokes the development of the regions by train and multiple journeys, witnesses of different eras. The Matapédia station becomes a studio for creations offered to visual artists.
EXHIBITIONS
The waiting room two artworks by the Rimouski artist Fernande Forest, a mural and a tondo made from archive photos of the station and the surrounding railway courtesy of railroad enthusiasts, who admirably make the link between the old and the new vocation of the place while underlining its great heritage value.
EVENTS
Various community events and activities take place at Matapédia Station. It is a new place of expression in the heart of the municipality where presentations take place from time to time in the premises outside of the artist-in-residence presentations.
