on view
OPEN ACCESS
RESIDENCIES
Aria Maillot (Toulouse, France)
June 4-30
A.G.E © Aria Maillot
Aria Maillot explores food-related metamorphoses as narratives of personal transformation. Initially guided by the idea of changes brought about by travel, her work has gradually shifted toward a reflection on aging: that of the body, of time, and of materials that transform, ferment, or erode. Her experiments with maple syrup and its derivatives explore these transitional states. In cooking as in the body, sugar marks the passage of time. Through a process called glycation, it stiffens tissues, freezes cells, and leaves irreversible traces.
PERFORMANCE
Mon Père était chef de Gare
Rachel Thibault
Saturday, June 13, 12:30 p.m.
© Charlotte Perron
Rachel Thibault pays tribute to her father, who served as stationmaster in Matapédia from 1959 to 1974, through a three-part performance: the first part recounts the artist’s childhood, the second is a tribute to her father, and the third is intended as a tribute to the railway family.At that time, passenger trains from Gaspé, Halifax, and Montreal arrived every day, and a complex series of train movements—much like those at a rail yard—unfolded before his childish eyes. The participatory performance involved volunteers who agreed to play the part of train cars to form a human train, as well as students from École des Deux-Rivières who created banners.
QUEBEC-ACADIA
RESIDENCIES
© Jean-Denis Boudreau
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
Second hand métamorphose (Flashing Light), Baptiste Eybert, February 21, 2026 public presentation © Gare de Matapédia
INTERNATIONAL
RESIDENCIES
Absolute Treshold, Kate Power, December 20, 2025 public presentation © Gare de Matapédia
Dans les entrailles du ravin
Valérie Cain Bourget
November 15, 2025 - April 1, 2026
Aube, 2025 © Gare de Matapédia
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.
