Program

Serge Murphy is an artist known for his ink drawings and for his sculptural installations made out of modified or assisted manufactured objects. His work explores a world of freedom, part way between improvisation and organisation, drawing on the same source in two and three dimensions.

Born in Guadeloupe, in the French-speaking Caribbean, Eddy Firmin is an artist researcher. He holds a doctorate in art studies and practices from the Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada, and a master’s degree from the École supérieure d’art et de design Le Havre-Rouen in France. He is editor of the decolonial journal Minorit’Art. In his work, he interrogates the transcultural logic of his identity and the power relations which play out in it. On the theoretical level, he is working on a Méthode Bossale, or a proposal for the decolonisation of the artistic imagination.

Caroline is a multidisciplinary artist from the Outaouais region of Quebec. She studied sociology and communication at the University of Ottawa in Canada and at the University of Granada in Spain before undertaking a career in visual art and cinema. Her work has been shown around the world and can be found in numerous collections, including those of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the National Gallery of Canada, the RBC Art Collection and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal.

Artistic director Sylvie Lacerte’s concluding comments are the final event of the Symposium. During this final presentation of her three-year mandate, Sylvie Lacerte will share her vision of the work created by the artists over the course of the four weeks of the Symposium. A high point you are invited to attend on August 29 at 4 p.m.