Programming

From November 13, 2024 to February 14, 2025, the poetic corpus Le jardin des question by author and artist Alice Guéricolas-Gagné will occupy the illuminated sign in Sainte-Cunégonde Park.

The illuminated sign invites you to choose a search that runs through your life, and asks you ten questions to reflect on it. The proposal is intended as an open window onto the search processes that each and every one of us potentially undergoes in the course of our lives, whether it's finding love, finding a professional position, finding decent housing, curing an unknown ailment or completing an artistic/scientific project.

In the garden of questions, sit down on a chair in the sun. Perhaps a stroller will whisper in your ear: “How can you know what you're looking for when, precisely, you haven't found it yet?” Don't be in a hurry to answer, because what the question brings out in you is worth savouring.

“What do I search when I search? This question, which emerged while the artist was preparing a workshop for Budapest's Zine Klub in 2022, led her to other questions, which she then developed as tools for her creative journey. Alice Guéricolas-Gagné proposes here to experiment with how this methodology can be deployed in everyday life.

Alice Guéricolas-Gagné

After publishing the novel Saint-Jambe (Prix Robert-Cliche 2018) about her downtown Quebec City neighborhood, Alice Guéricolas-Gagné co-directs the collective post-apocalyptic utopia project La montée des eaux (2020), which features the same neighborhood. She devotes her Master's degree in Literary Studies (2022) to a text that circulated under the cloak in Prague in the 1970s, then continues her research in Central Europe into what remains of this type of clandestine writing today. In the wake of this quest, she is working on a novel provisionally entitled Des radeaux de papier. Alice Guéricolas-Gagné uses a variety of means, often with the help of collaborators, to create wandering and salon shows, exhibitions in house windows, fanzines and performative devices in the heart of a city, in the hope of bringing memories and imaginary worlds closer to people's everyday lives.