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Jennifer Alleyn and Raphaëlle de Groot

Atelier ouvert

Opening doors to a virtual studio space, Jennifer and Raphaëlle invite us to a pool. What would you share about yourself? An object? A letter? A tool? A question?

Archives from Atelier ouvert (excerpts)

Some excerpts from the collective workshops held by Jennifer Alleyn and Raphaëlle de Groot from January 29 to February 6, 2021.

Two creators got in dialogue with each other. Two paths, two artistic approaches — one conversation. A bare thread is revealed between life, practice and work of both. Together at a pivotal moment in their respective journey, Jennifer Alleyn and Raphaëlle de Groot propose to suspend time to dive into a biographical research and identify material to share. Through this double portrait exercise, they explore different observation processes. But above all, they question the free spirit that drives them and what freedom is involved in creation.

Opening the doors of this temporary workshop, they bring us to a common experience.

What would you share about yourselves?
An object? A letter ? A tool ? A question?

Atelier ouvert took place with 40 participants from January 29 to February 6, 2021. Here are assembled project excerpts chosen by the participants.

Jennifer Alleyn

Born in Switzerland and based in Montreal, Jennifer Alleyn is a multidisciplinary artist whose poetic and cinematic research explores themes of loss, legacy and and uprootedness. The creative process is integrated into the projects she develops and and regularly invokes autofiction. A graduate of Concordia University, she exhibits and and disseminates her work in Canada and abroad. Her protean work, at a human scale, is the recipient of many awards.

Raphaëlle de Groot

Raphaëlle de Groot gathers traces, images, objects, stories and observations. Her creative projects are the fruit of an encounter with a living environment, a territory and people. She is interested in aspects of the human experience that are difficult to represent, such as sensations, the sense of belonging to the world and various states of attention, presence and engagement. For her "touski", she has prepared a landscape with remnants from Subsistances - Inniun, made on Quebec's North Shore from 2016 to 2017, and from the Entre mer et terre corpus presented at Momenta in 2019. Raphaëlle lives and works between Montreal and Orsigna, Italy. The artist has been presenting her work on the Canadian and international scene for twenty-five years. She has received several distinctions, including the Sobey Award for the Arts in 2012.