Être encore (Being again)
Presented in conjunction with the MNBAQ Contemporary Art Award 2025Curated by Bernard Lamarche
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
13 February – 21 April 2025
Anne-Marie Proulx disperses photography in installations that recount her reading, expeditions, and encounters. The photographic installation Être encore (2024-2025), freely inspired by the career of Flora Fontanges, the key character in Anne Hébert’s novel Le premier jardin, assembles images and texts stemming from a rereading of the novel. The work proposes new avenues based on Fontanges’ literary voyage and the artist’s actual transatlantic crossing. It is no coincidence that the motif of the window is present in this installation, near a mirror damaged by time. The images seem to pitch like the boats that transported the artist and the novel’s hero, thus reflecting the vertiginous quest for identity.
Prints : VU, Atelier M. Séguin, Version image plus
Mountmaking : Pierre-Luc Brouillette
Many thanks to the jury of the MNBAQ Contemporary Art Award 2025 – Anne D’Amours McDonald, Mike Patten, Caroline Loncol Daigneault, Cheryl Sim and Michèle Thériault –, Bernard Lamarche and the MNBAQ team, Clémentine Carsberg, Céline Béland, Sylvain Ruest, VU and the Cercle des fermières de Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies. This installation was made possible with the support of VOX and with the financial support of Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.
