Programming

The works of Suzanne Maurice do not oppose the discourse and the matter. Her ceramics representing women's bodies are matter of the discourse whose source is the daily life. These statuettes with symbolic forms, these plump women not corresponding to the criteria of beauty of our time are the underneath of the discourse composed of flesh and earth.

Because the daily newspaper pursues us, as we pursue our daily tasks, day by day. No matter how much we want to cover the events of the week with a clean discourse, the dishes continue to accumulate if no one washes them. Maurice's work focuses on the interaction between the everyday and the verb... both hands in the soapy water. There is in the research of this artist a great will to abolish the distance caused by the prevalence of the discourse on the matter.

At the Hôtel-Dieu de Amos in Abitibi, this is where it all began, in November 1957, because it always begins with a birth. Under what sign is it necessary to be born to spend one's life searching madly for oneself, while denying oneself? Suzanne Maurice finished her bachelor's degree in visual arts in 1993. The fundamental questions that she wanted to resolve during her studies remain, even today, present. In fact, this first exhibition represents the first real answer she allows herself to bring to many of her questions.

Source: Anne C. Thibault