The Artists of La Montagnarde 2025

In the project Entre deux Eaux, Marie-Laurence Marleau occupies several roles, author, director and performer. For this first large-scale project, the trained actress wishes to question our personal and societal relationship to speaking out. The creative residency at La Montagnarde will be the opportunity to refine the process of creation, writing and the staging of this documentary theater piece on which she has been working for more than 5 years. “What are the limits to speaking out? Do we speak too much or not enough? And what importance do we give to it within our society?” These are all questions that Marie-Laurence attempts to answer through the use of different mediums (video projection, recorded and live music, interviews, testimonies or even interactions with the public). 

Carried by the song Respirer dans l'eau by Daniel Bélanger, the artist registered her work in the present time since this piece also arises from her own desire to assert herself following denunciations of harassment. “A courageous exploration of human expression in the modern era.”

Marie-Laurence will be at La Montagnarde from January 20 to 29, 2025.

A multidisciplinary artist, Marie-Claude de Souza has been creating installations and poetic interventions in public spaces for many years. She takes the codes of relational art to apply them to the field of literary practices. Co-founder of Productions Langues Pendues and creator of the Topoésie project, she is developing another one since 2023: the Glossaire baragouiné (working title).

This diverted dictionary aims to identify family neologisms, that is to say those diverted or invented words that only members of the same family know and understand. Interested in the relationship to the Frenchization of immigrant families, she wishes to explore these adaptation strategies when faced with French in particular. This project is also a critique of the influence of written cultures over oral cultures, specifically in the field of knowledge.

During her presence at La Montagnarde, she wishes to advance this ambitious project in collaboration with various partners of the MRC.  

Marie-Claude will be present at La Montagnarde from February 6 to 17, 2025.

A visual artist for over 40 years, Diane Brodeur, of Micmac origin, has been working for over 3 years on projects to highlight her ancestors in order to bring their memory to life. The question of the passing of time and the time of healing is at the center of her artistic proposals.

Her residency at La Montagnarde will be devoted to an installation in the forest. Point de repère is a circle, a compass in the heart of the forest where each tree will be a cardinal point, an ancestor to whom she wishes to pay homage. 

Diane will be present at La Montagnarde from March 16 to 25, 2025.

Originally from the Eastern Townships, JF Lamoureux and Mathilde Fournier-Hébert met during their photography studies. Since then, they have occasionally worked in collaboration on different projects. Which led them to found the LFH. Their artistic work has been selected during various events such as Cube3 and the Rencontres de la Photographie en Gaspésie. During these events, artists take a critical look at the democratization and acceleration of the photographic process through the use of slow techniques. LFH likes to take a civic position and wishes to encourage artistic collaboration in their projects.

Once reunited, the primary objective of this duo is to engage in a dialogue with each other and reflect on slow photography. Their partnership is motivated by an eco-responsible, philosophical and poetic approach. LFH likes to take a civic position and wishes to encourage artistic collaboration in its projects. The LFH firmly believes in the power of contemplating natural spaces and in the link between knowledge of what surrounds us and the desire to protect the environment. LFH wants the slowdown. The slowdown in the exploitation of resources, hyperconsumption and hyper-productivity. LFH offers, mainly through slow photographic processes, a contemplative and militant look.

LFH were at La Montagnarde from November 18 to 24, 2024 and they will come back in april 2025.

Caroline Dusseault - Dusso Danse brings together for the duration of the Bermuda Museum project, a collective in which she invites Yannick St-Jean and Jacob Cadieux to join her. Passionate about the off-scene, with the desire to explore the frontiers of contemporary art, these three artists will come together at La Montagnarde to finalize the creation of this project. The number 3 is the basis of this creation which combines dance, visual arts and music. We navigate this Bermuda triangle where the 3 disciplines come together and invest equally in unconventional spaces. This work is closely linked to Bois Flotté, the latest creation by Dusso Danse. Bermuda Museum is therefore a sort of phase 2 of this research where “past, present and future intertwine, leaving a confusing imprint on the contemporary cultural fabric.”

The artists' desire is to make this work an almost immersive experience suitable for small spaces. Indeed, for a long time, Caroline has had the democratization of artistic practice firmly in her heart. Very anchored in the Laurentians, this residence in Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard will allow her to immerse herself a little more in this place which is dear to her.

Dusso Danse will be present at La Montagnarde from June 2 to 10, 2025.

Wartin Pantois is a visual artist based in Quebec. His site-specific art infiltrates public spaces and unconventional places. His contextual works provide perspective that provoke reflection and discussion. They are developed from observations, research and citizen surveys. Known for his ephemeral photographic collages, in black and white and on a human scale in public spaces, his creations also take the form of critical images, ready-mades and sound installations.

His stay at La Montagnarde will be an opportunity to extend the research-creation around his project Or Canopée. Combining photography, audio and installation, this project is a reflection on the urgency with which climate change threatens the lives of many human beings on Earth. His engaged, contextual and in situ artistic approach resonates perfectly with the ambitions of the ATSA artist residency.

Wartin will be at La Montagnarde from June 16 to 29, 2025.