Programming

During Lucie Gagnon and Julie Pelletier's time at DARE-DARE, the gallery space is transformed into a working studio.

From the back alley to the studio, these found doors mark an encounter—an invitation to cross a threshold. Standardized over time, our house doors have slowly been stripped of clues. What attitude should we adopt when entering someone else’s home? We no longer know. Lucie Gagnon seeks to restore the door’s meaning as a threshold. By clothing it with everyday objects, she lets it tell a story. Depending on the chosen materials, intimacy hides or reveals itself. The door opens, closes, or remains ajar, playing between division and transparency. Boundaries shift, a territory takes shape, imbued with subjective oscillations.
—Bianca Côté

A statement that aims to offer an intimate reflection on the fragility of being, on its uncertainty. A coexistence: the body and the mind. Between these two lives situated at the edges of our being lies an “unspeakable space,” in search of an identity. This questioning echoes the constant passage from exteriority to interiority, carried by a visual exploration in which the idea of a “transition toward a finality” unfolds through a slow mutation of matter-light. Printmaking remains the foundation of my practice, but the use of the process becomes something else and transforms according to the needs: the materials, supports, formats, and so on. Transgress, without losing meaning.
—Julie Pelletier

These two artists hold bachelor's degrees in visual arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal, and specialize in printmaking. What they have in common is their approach to materials (paper, wood, wax, metal), to which the notion of opening and closing is grafted. The interaction of this space of constant research proves to be a communicating vessel where nothing can be fixed in advance. The studio is open to the public on fixed days and by appointment.