QUEBEC-ACADIA
RESIDENCIES
Launch on August 26, 2024
Marie Ségolène Brault, Rouge Gorge, 2021, video excerpt
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.
OPEN ACCESS
RESIDENCIES
Chantal Bélanger, Bois dormants, 2024
PRESENTATION OF CHANTAL BÉLANGER'S RESIDENCY PROJECT
Presentation of Chantal Bélanger's residency project - Saturday, August 24, 2024, from 10 am to 1 pm during the public market
Chantal Bélanger, artist-in-residence for Accès Libre at Gare de Matapédia during the month of August, has produced a work that is both maritime and temporal, expressing in its own way a sense of attachment to the community and its history.
Inspired by the driftwood found scattered along Miguasha's beach, the artist placed branches and roots end-to-end to present a reconstitution. This free association parallels driftwood and Devonian fossils, both witnesses to past events and reminders of a common reference to temporality and water.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS AT ANY TIME
A call for applications is open at all times to artists and curators from all horizons, tooffer tailor-made residencies in the inspiring setting of a heritage train station datingfrom 1903.
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. Currently shared with the organization Centr’Elles, activities and presentations take place from time to time in the premises outside of the artist-in-residence presentations.
About
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 in the heart of the life of the municipality of Matapédia, in a nature as grandiose as it is inspiring. This contemporary visual arts project highlights local heritage while opening up to the world. 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 a space for creation outside metropolitan areas to Quebec artists, and an influence in urban areas for Gaspesian artists.
