BIO Chantal Lagacé holds a degree in visual arts and has been a practising multidisciplinary artist for thirty-five years, using mostly installation, photography and collage. She has also made public artworks. Actively involved in the cultural community, she was co founder of the Regart collective and artist-run centre. Her work has been shown in major solo and group exhibitions in Quebec and France, and can be found in several private collections.
ARTISTIC PRACTICE Chantal Lagacé’s work is similar to that of the palaeontologist, the archivist, the collector and the historian. What interests her is the material dimension of the city. In this respect, she works on the idea that all the material elements of the city are temporal, cultural, social, technological and economic markers. Among the topics she addresses are identity, collective memory, the architectural heritage, the development of a region, everyday consumption and digital and technological transformations. In her work she tries to show the things and forms which have held her attention as they bear witness to an era or demonstrate our know-how or way of life.
PROJECT Entitled Plan Ligne Point – planer au-dessus de la continuité, Chantal Lagacé’s project intends to highlight the sprawling graphic representation of networks of streets, highways and, through a causal relation, that of the electrical wires and cables they run alongside. To carry out this project, Lagacé will conduct research into geographical maps and establish a body of documentary photographs. She will also take photographs and audiovisual footage from a helicopter over the city. These photographs and audiovisual materials will accompany a geographical map of Baie-Saint-Paul, depicting these networks on the ground using nails and coloured cord.
