Transcending the commonplace
It all started at a meeting with Kinuko Asano, director of the gallery Écho 119, and the decision to entrust her with the curatorship of an exhibition that brought together five Japanese artists for the 2024 edition.
Out of discussions with the artists, their proposals, and the omnipresence of the everyday in their work, this idea of Transcending the commonplace emerged, the theme of our 15th edition. Around that idea we assembled different bodies of work that are part of the “humanity of the moment,”[1] a concept that makes the artist an observer, a researcher. It was in the same spirit that we invited Maude Arsenault (Québec), Lara Gasparotto (Belgium), Marine Lécuyer (France) and Chieko Shiraishi (Japan) to do residencies in the Gaspé Peninsula in 2022/2023. Their works are collected under the title Four Women’s Perspectives on a Region.
[1]Susan Sontag, On Photography
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September 16, 2024Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie benefits from CALQ financial assistance in support of its missionThe management of Rencontres de la photographie is proud to announce that further to an application submitted to the Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec at the start of the current year, the organization has been awarded a...
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September 4, 2024Alessandra Calò (Italy) and Taïssia Froidure(France) are doing creation residencies in the Gaspé peninsula, with the participation of France Cayouette (Québec)Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie will be hosting two international artists for creation residencies in the first half of September. Alessandra Calò (photography) from Italy and Taïssia Froidure (sound art) from France will survey the Gaspé coastline in order...
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August 29, 2024Maryse Goudreau’s short film Derrière les mauvaises photos de baleines presented for the first time at the 2024 Rencontres on TourQuai des arts in Carleton-sur-Mer will be the site for the very first public screening of the short film Derrière les mauvaises photos de baleines (Behind the Bad Pictures of Whales) by multidisciplinary artist Maryse Goudreau. The event, at 6:30 p.m....
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May 24, 2024Transcending the commonplace, the theme of our 15th editionThe ordinary, the common, the insignificant – there’s nothing more authentic and more rooted in our day-to-day lives. Often with minimal staging, photographers frame a dull moment, a bland gesture, a nondescript landscape. With their way of seeing, with...
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May 3, 2024Rencontres de la photographie can be found at the Festival international de journalisme de Carleton-Sur-Mer (FIJQ).From May 16 to 19, an exhibition and an evening photo retrospective will be taking place as part of the FIJC, an important event in the media sector. Four Women’s Perspectives on the Gaspé Peninsula – Exhibition presented from May...
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August 24, 2023Chieko Shiraishi (Japan), Lara Gasparotto (Belgium), Marine Lécuyer (France) and and Maude Arsenault (Québec) doing creation residencies in the Gaspé PeninsulaRencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie is hosting Japan’s Chieko Shiraishi, Belgium’s Lara Gasparotto, France’s Marine Lécuyer and Montreal’s Maude Arsenault for creation residencies from late August to mid-September 2023. These four artists will be crisscrossing the region in...
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June 5, 2023Photo mission in the Eastern Townships: Pépite & Josèphe selectedSporobole and Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie, in collaboration with Loto-Québec, announce the selection of Pépite & Josèphe (Sutton and Montreal, Québec) to carry out a photographic mission that will document the landscape of the Eastern Townships in...
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May 11, 2023Exhibition and documentary of Zaynê Akyol at Carleton-sur-MerRencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie is happy to be partnering with the Festival international de journalisme de Carleton-sur-Mer and the Vaste et Vague artist center to present the photography exhibit NÛJEN, the Women Soldiers and the documentary Gulîstan,...
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March 13, 2023Launch of the book “Carcasse” by Normand RajotteRencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie is pleased to announce the release of the book “Carcasse” by Normand Rajotte, published jointly by Éditions Escuminac (the publishing house of Rencontres) and Diaphane Éditions (France). The launch will be taking place...
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March 7, 2023Creation residency | Photographic mission in the Eastern TownshipsSporobole and Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie, thanks to the support of Loto-Québec, invite professional Québec artists to submit a project proposal by May 19, 2023. The artist selected will carry out a photography mission that documents one or...
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November 28, 2022Launch of the book Indian Time: en territoire innu by Elena PerlinoRencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie is happy to announce the release in Québec of Elena Perlino’s book Indian Time: en territoire innu. Co-published by Éditions Loco (France) and Éditions Escuminac (Rencontres’ publishing house), the book, launched in France...
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October 18, 2022“Péninsule” by Michel Huneault at Musée de la GaspésieMusée de la Gaspésie and Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie invite the public to the vernissage of the exhibition Péninsule (Peninsula) in the presence of Michel Huneault, documentary photographer and visual artist. The vernissage will take place inside...
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September 20, 2022Gabor Szilasi at Photaumnales, and at Musée de Charlevoix with Chun Hua Catherine DongAs part of the 2022 France-Québec exchange curatorships, Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie is presenting Gabor Szilasi’s Charlevoix from September 17 to December 11, 2022, at Photaumnales, in Beauvais, France. The images for this exhibition were taken by...
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June 14, 2022Radical hope:
theme of the 13th edition of RencontresThe 13th edition of Rencontres will take place from July 15 to September 30, 2022, in 12 municipalities, towns and host parks in the Gaspé Peninsula on the theme “Radical hope.” According to Rencontres’ executive and artistic director, Claude... -
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August 16, 2021Rencontres on Tour: from September 3 to 5, 2021Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie is pleased to announce the return of Rencontres on Tour to the heart of its 12th edition. This one-of-a-kind event, which runs from September 3 to 5, 2021, will bring together visitors, artists...
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