Artists:
Rebecca Munce
Chloé Gagnon
Jérémie Deschamps Bussières
David Bellemare
Le terme blastover provient du tatouage, et désigne un tatouage superposé à un autre au plusieurs d’autre tatouages. L’objectif n’est pas de recouvrir sans en tenir compte un ou des tatouages anciens, délavés ou indésirables. En ce sens, il ne s’agit pas d’un cover-up, c’est à dire de cacher les indices d’une ancienne image avec, par exemple, des formes calculées, des ombres sombres et des couleurs saturées. Le ou les anciens tatouages sont plus que des arrières-plan pour les nouvelles applications, ce sont des contextes. Rebecca Munce, Jérémie Deschamps Bussières, David Bellemare et Chloé Gagnon, chacun à sa manière, filtrent, à travers la maille serrée de leur subjectivité, des images tirées des imaginaires collectifs, conscients du fait qu’elles les recouvrent sans les cacher, mais au contraire, en faisant plein usage du substrat d’où émerge leur substance.
Rebecca Munce
Rebecca Munce’s drawings and sculptures explore the intersection of fantasy and the everyday psyche. Through her practice Munce brings together the hyperbole of mythological form with allegorical experience. The drawings and sculptures are constructed from a variety of sources; medieval mnemonic imagery, computer and board games and her creative writing practice. Munce creates characters, both supernatural and human, that appear again and again. These characters are repeated for years at a time, living through both sisphysian and euphoric scenarios. Through this approach Munce explores what it means to build and share an internal world, utilizing archetypes, pattern, repetitive figuration, and symbology as her tools towards its evolving construction.
Rebecca Munce lives and works in Montreal. She holds a BFA from York University and an MFA from Concordia University. Munce has participated in numerous exhibitions in Canada, the United States, Italy and Japan. More recently, the artist's works have been exhibited in a solo exhibition at DRAC art center in Drummondville (2022), Spring/Break (New York, 2021), Center Clark (Montreal, 2021), McBride Contemporain (Montreal, 2020), Stewart Hall Gallery (Montreal, 2019), FOFA Gallery (Montreal, 2018) and Momozono Gallery (Tokyo, 2018).
Chloé Gagnon
The core of Chloé Gagnon's work lies in a quest for agency through collages transposed into paint. In an approach that is both critical and humorous, she uses cutting in her work process to free herself from certain social constraints. She "glues" these pieces together by imagining improbable collisions between images that are sometimes soft, sometimes incisive, following the meanderings of her subjectivity. Culled from magazines or books, the texts and images she uses - mostly female and animal figures - are first combined in the form of digital collages. The game begins when these snippets clash through diverse ways in which she processes pictorial matter, notably by the accumulation of layers
Born in 1995, Chloé Gagnon is a Franco-Ontarian artist who lives and works in Tio'tia:ke (Montreal). She holds a master's degree in visual and media arts from UQAM and a bachelor's degree in visual arts from the Université de Moncton. She recently presented the solo exhibition Did We Dream Too Fast? at the CDEx of UQAM (2021) and has participated in various group exhibitions in Montreal, including Artch: 4 th edition at Dorchester Square (2021), Peinture fraiche et nouvelle construction at Art Mûr (2021) and Écho Boomer: Natifs numériques at Projet Casa (2020). She will soon participate in the group exhibition Espace Sensible curated by the artist-run center Le Lobe in Chicoutimi (October 2022) and another one at Centre des arts actuels Skol in Montreal
(January 2023).
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Jérémie Deschamps Bussières
Using the inexhaustible source of content that the internet offers today, Jérémie Deschamps Bussière documents videos, which are often anonymous. From these videos, the artist chooses stills and appropriates with his own sensitive and intuitive intervention. Social catastrophes or spectacular adventures from the public realm, tragic to the everyday occurrences, content used by the artist from Trois-Rivières is presented as a mythical, or epic moments of human history in the age of the Internet. The video still becomes first a photo, then a painting, and finally a work of art. Thus, the works propose to be a testimony of our time. A particular importance is given to certain events shared online when contextualized through the traditional processes of artistic endeavour. By creating these artifacts, the artist's interventions blurs univocal interpretation, release multiple possibilities for the viewers interpretations.
Jérémie Deschamps Bussières lives and works in Trois-Rivières. In 2022, he was among the short list of artists selected for the Foire en art actuel de Québec. Before this he was part of exhibition copy/paste/erase with 7 other international artists selected by the Galerie C.O.A in Montreal. In 2015, he gained exposure at the Freshpaint exhibition at the Galerie Art Mûr in Montreal, which brought the work of 40 emerging Canadian artists together. His work was then referenced and highlighted in an article in Presse+ in Montreal. In 2019, the artist presented his first solo work La fuite des fusées éclairantes at the Centre d'exposition Raymond-Lasnier, which earned him the Stelio Sole award the following year. He was also nominated for the Arts Excellence award in 2021. The artist also has collaborated with many collaborations Burton Snowboards, We Are Colossale, and Cirque du Soleil) and has participated various in group exhibitions, both in Quebec and abroad (Mexico, China, Colombia, France, Spain, Serbia). His work has been the subject of several articles in La Presse+, Le Nouvelliste, Supersonic Art and the magazine of the design center of UQAM in Montreal, and Pica Magazine.
David Bellemare
His artistic practice is rooted in collage. He approaches both painting and sculpture copy and paste mediums. He takes images out of their initial context and juxtaposes them to give them a new meaning. Bellemare draws his imagery from web culture, clip art, used books, sacred rites and childhood memories. The Kitsch or the grandiose, the banal or the sacred, these worlds clash when they come together in his creations, to create a kind of discomfort that activates the pictorial surface. Symmetry, monumentality, and symbolism are important aspects of his works. Autobiographical stories are then added, as camouflaged elements. It is in this oscillation, between the personal and the universal, that Bellemare situates himself. Humor is for him an indispensable creative tool. As his grandmother used to say: "After all, if you're not worth a laugh, you're not worth much!"
David Bellemare has been living and working in Montreal for 15 years. Originally from the Outaouais region, he holds a bachelor's degree in painting and drawing from Concordia University. He has exhibited in Canada, Mexico and France and is represented by the TAP gallery.