Vernissage: January 29, 2025 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Exhibition: January 29 to March 23, 2025
A notorious pioneer of Écart, Gaétane Godbout returns to the springtime of her practice, jettisoning consensus for more frontal access to casualness. Combining lace, rope, collage, paint and other materials, she delves back into the know-how passed down by her grandmother through weaving and lace-making; bequeathing it as an exaltation; inspiring her to deploy in space a living installation, the fused fruit of plastic encounter and memory.
Artist Gaétane Godbout foments a large-format installation integrating the⸱e spectator⸱rice as a participatory⸱ive agent. Organized wandering, or how to get away from immutable gestures to go out and meet oneself, is a return to the well.
Two major axes unite the artist’s creative path; the encounter with the other – the appetence for the reverberation of heritages – and the act of painting. The artist’s pictorial composition is a waltz between precision and intuition; a succession of superimposed lines, dots and shapes create vectors reproducing inter-human links. Through her works, layers of meaning unfold, exposing both human and structural complexity. These visual symphonies allow for an interpretation that is endlessly renewable, like the reading of a poem.
(Text by Janie Lapierre)
Gaétane Godbout was born in Malartic and now lives in Rouyn-Noranda. She holds a bachelor’s degree in visual arts and a certificate in education. The artist has held several solo and group exhibitions. Her work has been presented through the Abitibi-Témiscamingue arts and architecture integration program, as well as at several exhibitions in Québec, Ontario, New Brunswick and Denmark. She has been an important figure in various visual arts symposiums and a founding member of the Centre des artistes en arts visuels de l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue – l’Écart.
Photo credit: Gaétane Godbout, Carton 3 (Détails de l’œuvre), 2024
