Programming

Paintings, performance, photocopies, photographs.

DARE-DARE presents five female artists with heterogeneous mediums: Rachel Boucher's paintings, Marie-Helene Robert's performances and photocopies, Suzanne Girard and Marik Boudreau's photographs, Suzanne Valotaire's performances. They have already collaborated with each other in various events and we can see, in the space of DARE-DARE, the trace of certain friendships as well as affinities that go beyond the different disciplines used.

DARE-DARE has invited five artists to exhibit in its space. Five women who had already collaborated on various exhibitions and/or shows. Each artist had the opportunity to exhibit one or two works, the results of their respective work being known only at the time of hanging. A surprise for exhibitors and the public alike. In this exhibition, we can see the traces of certain friendships and affinities that go beyond the different disciplines involved.

Rachel Boucher, painter, *I paint and draw because it's an active way to take hold of everyday life, to see its other dimensions. I also paint for the physical gesture. The subjects I paint speak to/overflow from my emotions. My work is a focus on the trajectories my life takes."

Marie-Hélène Robert, performer/photocopier: "I was born in Edmunston, N.B., in 1951. It wasn't until five years later, in Montreal, that I officially began copying. At school, Adam and Eve, which I enlarged from an illustration, was rejected for lack of childlike imagination. The full-colour chalkboard series (snowy landscapes, nativities, elves and other Christmas bamboos) were better received by the authorities."

Suzanne Girard, photographer: "Exhibiting with women I love and respect enormously, women who inspire me...It's a motivating "challenge", purely for pleasure: a gift. Two black and white photomontages; workshop, spaces, moments of creation. Reflections on a passion."

Suzanne Valotaire, performer and actress, evolved in the world of visual arts before securing dense training and experience in theater. "Drawing beings to love or hate them; to embody or stage them. Drawing to activate the eye and the body, to delve into the soul and nuance reality: a gymnastics of choice and desire, a means of investigation and invention."

Marik Boudreau, photographer, "The images I propose combine the real and the synthesized, produced on a microcomputer, they are part of a period of reflection on the image, and this in a context where the photographic image is both devalued because it is deceptive and overvalued because it is powerful."