Natacha Clitandre
Natacha Clitandre completed a B.A. in visual arts at UQAM in 2000. In 2007, she completed a Master's degree in Theory and Practice of Contemporary Art and New Media at Université Paris 8 and École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs (ENSAD). As part of her studies, she spent time at Brown University and RISD, in Providence, Rhode Island.
As part of her work process, she wanders the city to document the shifting poles of attraction, collecting data and narratives that help identify what influences our sense of belonging. Using ubiquitous technological devices, she creates mechanisms that highlight the relationship between the artist, the public and our shared spaces. By inviting us to take a different look, she seeks to create social links, break down the barriers between living environments and reveal the different layers of history that urban space and the contents of interest to a variety of communities harbor.
Her work has been presented in Europe (Nantes, Paris, Brussels) and North America (Montreal, Laval, Quebec City, Gaspésie, Pittsburgh, New York, Baltimore). Also a cultural worker*, she notably developed the Slow Tech posture of the feminist artist-run center Ada X, where she was-from 2017 to 2022-coordinator of programming and the HTMlles festival. She lives and works in Montréal/Tio'tia:ke.
Caroline Barber
The literature of Oulipo, the cut-up words of Dada and the exquisite corpses of Surrealism are Caroline Barber's favorite playgrounds. These literary devices place words at the heart of her creative practice. Words serve as vehicles of the imagination, graphic images and echoes in the material, just as they do in her work as an everyday empoetineuse.
She has been offering literary workshops in Montreal schools and libraries for over ten years, and participates in the Blue Metropolis Children's Festival and Fenêtres qui parlent. Her fifth children's album, Le vol, has just been published by Les 400 coups.
Stéphanie Morissette
Paolo Almario
Paolo Almario is a digital artist of Colombian origin based in Chicoutimi since 2011. He began his career in 2014 with projects related to the impact Colombia's conflict had on his family. The repercussions of his artistic engagement led him to seek the protection of the Canadian Government, where he has had refugee status since 2015.
He trained at the Facultad de Arquitectura y Diseño of Universidad Los Andes (Bogota, Colombia). In 2014, he completed a Master of Arts at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC). His work has been supported on several occasions by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) and the Canada Council for the Arts. In 2018, he was awarded the Prix du CALQ - Créateur de l'année in Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean. His work has been exhibited in Canada, Colombia, Italy, Belgium and France.
In his practice, Paolo Almario uses digital technologies to collect, analyze, codify, process and transform samples of reality into a plurality of artistic forms. Focusing on installation, software and electro-mechanical art, he explores the relationship between the individual and space, focusing on notions of identity, spatio-temporality and socio-politics.
Leila Zelli
Born in Tehran (Iran), Leila Zelli lives and works in Montreal. With a master's degree (2020) and a bachelor's degree (2016) in visual and media arts from UQAM, she is interested in our relationship with ideas of "others" and "elsewhere", and more specifically within the geopolitical space often referred to by the debatable term "Middle East". His work has been shown at Galerie Pierre-François Ouellette (2021), Galerie Bradley Ertaskiran (2020), Conseil des arts de Montréal (2019-2020), Galerie de l'UQAM (2020,2019, 2015) and Foire en art actuel de Québec (2019), among others. Her work is now part of the collections of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Musée d'art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul and the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec. She is the 2021 recipient of the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art.