Sylvie Lacerte is beginning the third and final year of her mandate as Artistic Director of the Symposium international d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul. From July 2019 to the end of December 2020 she occupied the post of Curator of Quebec and Canadian Contemporary Art at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA). In this capacity she organized the first solo exhibition solo of the work of Manuel Mathieu, Survivance, in a North American museum. From January to May 2021, she was guest curator, also at the MMFA, for solo exhibitions of the work of Caroline Monnet, Ninga Mìnèh, and Yann Pocreau, Impermanencies.

Sylvie has also served as a member of the board of directors of the Domaine Forget in Charlevoix since 2018. She has organized several exhibitions of contemporary art as an independent curator and has several publications to her name both at home and abroad. She has also lectured widely in Canada and internationally.

The International Symposium of Contemporary Art of Baie-Saint-Paul,
is pleased to welcome artist Raymonde April as its President of
Honour for its 2021 edition Time and Things.

Raymonde April lives and works in Montréal, where she taught photography at Concordia University from 1985 to 2019. As a photographer and artist, since the late 1970s she has been recognised for her minimalist work which draws on everyday life at the intersection of documentary, autobiography and fiction. Her work has been the subject of major solo exhibitions in Canada and abroad, and can be found in the principal Canadian public collections.

"I work in the space between images as much as I do on the images themselves. The reasons I bring images together has to do with the artistic experience, with the unspoken. My formal choices are intuitive; when I group images, it is similar to writing. I have never defined myself as a documentary photographer, because I am interested as much in the fictions contained in the images as in the reality out of which they arose. Nevertheless, I credit my images with a descriptive side which makes them undeniable reflections of their geographical and cultural space-time. I am happy that my work is situated, one might even say inscribed, in this way in Québec society, out of which it arises, and that it expresses and represents this society."