Presentation of Chantal Francœur’s Residency
Layers of Resonance
and
Annual General Meeting of
Matapédia Jonction Pôle
Saturday, April 11, starting at 11 a.m.
Currently
OPEN ACCESS
RESIDENCIES
Chantal Francœur(Lower St. Lawrence)
March 27 - April 12, 2026
Quête sonore sur l'estrant © Jean Lesage
Sound research and creation have been part of Bas-Saint-Laurent artist Chantal Francœur's daily life for the past decade. Her preferred methodologies are sound immersion and interviews with all species. During her residency, she is interested in capturing the sounds of rivers undergoing metamorphosis.
To Come
QUEBEC-ACADIA
RESIDENCIES
Mollusque: L'histoire n'a pas de forme © Julie-Isabelle Laurin
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 Brunch © Gare de Matapédia
INTERNATIONAL
RESIDENCIES
Absolute Treshold, Kate Power, December 20, 2025 Brunch © 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.
