ARTISTIC CENTER
AND COMMUNITY
Launched by Quartier Éphémère, Visual Arts Center, and Vaste et Vague Artist Center in fall 2021, the Gare de Matapédia – Artistic and community center takes place at the heart of the life of the municipality of Matapédia, in a nature as grandiose as it is inspiring. This current visual arts project highlights the local heritage. It integrates artist residencies, exhibition spaces, arts activities, open studios and services offered by community organizations.It aims to create a meeting place, to bring art closer to communities and to offer both a place of creation outside metropolitan areas to Quebec artists, and an influence in urban areas for Gaspé artists._cc781905-5cde-3194 -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_
ACTIVITIES
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 space-workshop for creation offered to visual artists.
The waiting room is taken over by two works 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.
Various events and activities take place at the Gare de Matapédia, a new place of expression in the heart of the municipality. In particular, several animations by the co-tenant organizationCentr’Elles and presentations of artists in residence take place from time to time.
