En Vitrine: Résistances silencieuses at l’Université de l’Ontario français

An off-site project by Le Labo

Reflection on the wall of Tania Love’s artwork, Morphogenesis I © Tania Love

En vitrine Season 2: Résistances silencieuses

Tania Love and Noémie Roy
November 2024 – March 2025
Université de l’Ontario français, Toronto
Curated by Mathilde Rousseau
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Le Labo, l’Université de l’Ontario français, and its Carrefour des savoirs et de l’innovation are renewing their partnership for season 2 of the En Vitrine project, titled Résistances silencieuses.

This project unfolds within a display case, protecting and celebrating an intangible concept: the intimate.

In the face of an increasingly hostile world, in societies where violence, growth, and appropriation dictate the rules, a resistance rooted in gentleness, contemplation, and care is proposed here.

The display case serves as a protective frame for two deeply intimate projects, two female voices that whisper to us stories of the body and spirit, imbued with great sensitivity: Morphogenesis I by Tania Love and L’épingle filante by Noémie Roy.

At the heart of this project, a space for collaboration between artists and students opens up to foster cultural mediation.

Tania Love: Morphogenesis I
with a contribution of Stéphanie Salgo
November 7 – December 11, 2024

Noémie Roy: L’Épingle filante
with a contribution of Steve Kawe
February 13 – March 19, 2025

Archive of the artist during the creation period of the project L’Épingle filante © Noémie Roy

The next pop-up exhibition, L’épingle filante, by writer and multidisciplinary artist Noémie Roy

February 13 – March 19, 2025
Opening: February 13, 5:30pm ET
Université de l’Ontario français, Toronto
Reserve your spot for the opening (free)

This new exhibition is inspired by the poetry collection recently published by Noémie Roy, L’épingle filante, in which she unveils a certain aspect of the intimate: a form of resistance experienced within oneself, in family, and in one’s own body, which involves the practice of care. The one of motherhood.

Drawing from her collection, the artist immersed herself in the world of carded wool to create a garden of wool flowers that oscillates between abstraction and figuration. This space, both vegetal, animal, and biological, is composed of repetitive patterns reminiscent of the clustering of cells.

The use of wool allows the reflection on care to shift from text to material, through the exploration of connection via the use of fibrous materials and various techniques of weaving and assembling.

The Mediation Tool Created by Student Steve Kawe

Steve Kawe, a student in the Bachelor’s program in Digital Culture Studies at l’Université de l’Ontario français, has designed a digital mediation tool that explores and enriches the work of Noémie Roy. It offers an interactive visualization of a poem from the collection L’épingle filante, allowing the audience to navigate through different levels of interpretation of the work. The tool is structured around three distinct scenes, which flow into each other to reflect the transformation and relationship between the body, matter, and perception.

The Artist and the Curator

Noémie Roy is a writer, multidisciplinary artist, and teacher. In 2021, her first poetry collection Parmi celles qui flambent was published by Les Herbes rouges. Her poems explore the reappropriation of the body and the return to oneself in a language that radiates. She then published L’épingle filante (Les Herbes rouges, 2024), her second collection, where she explores her experience of motherhood from a poetic, existential, and political perspective. She has contributed to several issues of the magazines Exit and Zinc. Born in Quebec, she moved to Oshawa in 2022.

Mathilde Rousseau is a cultural worker and emerging curator based in Toronto. She studied art history at the École du Louvre in Paris, followed by cultural mediation. Through her work, she is committed to promoting the inclusion of all audiences and fighting against elitism in the art world. She also explores new forms of resistance to the issues of our postmodern societies, oppressive systems, and ecocides, advocating for slowing down, gentleness, and care.

This project is funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Government of Ontario.

Le Labo – Toronto’s Francophone Media Arts Center

Le Labo is a place in Toronto where French-speaking artists gather to learn and create, acknowledging the traditional territories of the First Nations. Situated on land governed by the Toronto Purchase Treaty, encompassing the territories of the Wendat, Anishinabek Nation, Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Credit River Mississaugas, and the Métis Nation, Le Labo gives voice to marginalized artists, fostering truth, healing, and reconciliation.

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L’Université de l’Ontario français

With its bachelor’s degrees, short programs, and certificates, l’Université de l’Ontario français focuses on training that addresses current issues such as responsible management, learning, immigration, diversity and inclusion, the constant innovation of digital technologies, as well as the sustainable and equitable development of our societies and the environment. From downtown Toronto, students take courses, complete assignments, and gain work experiences that open doors to many companies seeking qualified bilingual staff.

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