Suzanne Lauzon and Joanne Morency
in Marsoui

EXHIBIT

Mémoires et mirages
(Memories and Mirages)

Beach promenade and Park A-.Couturier | 8, Route Principale Est | Marsoui

Suzanne Lauzon, Caplan, the Gaspé, Québec
Joanne Morency, Maria, the Gaspé, Québec

Gaspesians Suzanne Lauzon (photographer) and Joanne Morency (poet) are joining their art forms together for at least this one exhibit. As a duo they combine words and images at the heart of the Gaspesian landscape.

Suzanne Lauzon is a self-taught artist living in the Gaspé. Her interest in and love for art are directly associated with what nature offers the human eye as subjects of observation. She has practiced photography for some 20 years, and this is her fifth exhibition.

Joanne Morency has published six books of poetry (with Éditions Triptyque and Éditions David) and received a number of honors, including the 2015 Radio-Canada Poetry Award and the 2014 Radio-Canada Narrative Award. She feels strongly about bringing poetry to the general public as much as possible by varying its forms of dissemination: museum exhibits, open-air installations, shows, broadcasts on radio and on digital platforms, and by facilitating workshops.

EXHIBIT AT RENCONTRES

Mémoires et mirages
(Memories and Mirages)

Suzanne Lauzon (photography) / Joanne Morency (poetry)

Photography and poetry join forces to create surrealistic worlds, according to a poetic approach to reality founded on the phenomenon of transparency.

Suzanne Lauzon’s artistic exploration in digital photography led her to put together, by superimposing images, unusual environments that simultaneously evoke different eras or places. The past rubs shoulders with the present in them, whereas the present partakes of the mirage. She composes an abstract universe based on very real elements where shapes, textures and colors deconstruct our points of reference. Joanne Morency adapts the same procedure in the dovetailing of two poems one within the other. The meeting-up of texts takes us to two parallel universes at the same time, where the two poems can be read in isolation or as a continuum.