Programming

Sub-event of

Caroline Loncol Daigneault

Sept. 1, 2025 — Jan. 31, 2026

For the fourth edition of the CONFLUENCES residency, DARE-DARE welcomes Caroline Loncol Daigneault for an eight-week period. Her project, titled Maman, papa et les masques de l’avant-nuit, is developed in collaboration with the Alzheimer Society Montreal.

MAMAN ET LES MASQUES DE L’AVANT-NUIT – Winter Journey

Caroline Loncol Daigneault

A contemplative and community-based artistic action
With the collaboration of artists Prune Paycha and Jesse McKenna

Saturday, January 31, 2026, at 2:30 p.m.
Sir-George-Étienne-Cartier Square
(Meeting point at the heart of the fountain)
hot chocolate on site
Furtive actions from Monday, January 26 to Friday, January 30

Following her residency at DARE-DARE last fall, carried out in collaboration with the Alzheimer Society of Montreal, Caroline Loncol Daigneault presents a second artistic action: a winter journey at Sir-George-Étienne-Cartier Square. A very simple gesture—one that nevertheless haunts the artist—serves as the point of departure. In the early days of the illness, and over the course of a few winters, her mother would take her shovel and set off. Without regard for the boundaries of private property, paths, or any other border, she cleared new routes through the landscape. A poignant and layered metaphor takes shape: that of a being who may be seeking a certain clarity or a tangible impact, while allowing herself, moment by moment, to follow an inner trajectory. Through unspectacular gestures, the aim is to collectively enact and experience this metaphor, and perhaps to uncover a buried poem.

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Please bring your snow shovels. A limited number of shovels will be available on site. Children are welcome! If possible, please confirm your attendance by writing to the following address: cloncol@hotmail.com.

Caroline Loncol Daigneault would like to thank: Myriam Loncol, Douglas Scholes, Jaden Scholes, Jaidy A. Diaz Barrios, Sylvaine Chassay and Bernard Claret, Will P. and Agnes McKenna, Prune Paycha, Jesse McKenna, the Conseil de la culture de l’Estrie, Éco-quartier Sud-Ouest | GRAME, the Sud-Ouest Borough, Parks Canada, the Alzheimer Society of Montreal, and the DARE-DARE team (Nana, Sonia, and Martin).

Artists Jesse McKenna and Prune Paycha contribute to this action and to the process as a whole through sculptural and photographic work, understood in a broad sense, full of horizons.

Caroline Loncol Daigneault

Caroline Loncol Daigneault is an artist, author, and curator based in Stanstead Township. With a deliberately collaborative and listening-based approach, her projects are driven by a desire to enrich and nuance the nature of our relationships. She creates situations that seek to collectively broaden the contours of preconceived ideas about childhood, old age, nature, and the circulation of power. Writing, keen attention to context, and approaches to presence based on the body and gesture are her primary tools. Her curatorial projects include Ranger | Déranger (Foreman and Turbine Art Gallery) and Le Chant des pistes (AdMare), among others. This summer, she created Tourner|Détourner at her home, a multidisciplinary, intimate, and community-based experience developed in the form of a coming-of-age fable with her twelve-year-old daughter, guest artists, and members of the Fitch Bay community. With this residency at DARE-DARE, curating and writing continue their migration toward dramaturgy and take on a performative form.

Jesse McKenna

Since the 1970s, except for the time of his art studies at OCAD in Toronto, Jesse McKenna has lived in a quiet corner of the Eastern Townships. His artistic practice weaves together the cyclical rituals of the gardens he tends, the animals he raises, the apple trees he cares for—through which he produces ciders—and uncharted walks that, over the seasons, lead him across the land. Added to these elements are hours spent drawing, painting, and shaping sculptures. These are crafted from fallen trees and salvaged metal, which he casts in his small foundry.

Prune Paycha

Prune Paycha is a visual artist and film critic. Her practice unfolds at the intersection of photography, installation, and research. Prune explores forms of vision through an attention to thresholds: between appearance and erasure, memory and forgetting, matter and trace. She is interested in family narratives, intimate knowledge, and places haunted by history or memory. The photographic image becomes both a sensitive surface and a sculptural object integrated into installations where the visible and the latent coexist. She lives and works in Tio’tia:ke / Montreal.