Sophie Jodoin
in Percé
(Île-Bonaventure-et-du-Rocher-Percé National Park)

Writing down fragments of her, of me. (translation)
Marie-Hélène Voyer, Mouron des champs, La Peuplade, 2022, p. 167

“This project is a continuation of my recent work in which texts, images, and chosen fragments act as a record of a life lived. In a letter from September 28, 2020, my mother describes her life as ‘a book that we open, close, and open again.’ For the past two years, my mother emerged as the subject of an unconventional archive that developed while we were apart. An inventory of correspondence, notebooks written and exchanged, phone recordings, disposable-camera photographs, and ritualized self-portraits form a double narrative in which two women, a mother and a daughter, confide in and reveal themselves to each other. un portrait inachevé (partition à deux voix) is the first manifestation of this archival impulse.

“I would like to thank my mother, without whom all this would not be possible; Éliane Excoffier for her precious help; and the Canada Council for the Arts for its support.” – Sophie Jodoin