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 16 to 19 at the Vaste et Vague artist center. Curator: Claude Goulet 

In the summer of 2023, Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie hosted four female artists from different backgrounds to do residencies. Four Women’s Perspectives on the Gaspé Peninsula is the result of these photographers’ take on the Gaspé region and its inhabitants. Maude Arsenault (Québec), Lara Gasparotto (Belgium), Marine Lécuyer (France) and Chieko Shiraishi (Japan) take us in turns to their personal and poetic worlds. 

For two years, Maude Arsenault has been surveying the region in order to document in pictures and in video the shores, beaches, cliffs and marine landscapes of the seaboard here, landscapes that are undergoing transformation. She invests them with her woman’s body by means of performative acts, self-portraits and on-site sculptural pieces. 

Lara Gasparotto delivers images that are both wild and gentle in character, capable of transporting the viewer to a dream kingdom, evoking a desire to escape. Each image reveals the complex beauty of nature’s elements and paints a living image of this serene yet fierce landscape. It’s more than anything the look of a mother observing the world from the perspective of her child. 

Marine Lécuyer, in moving away from reality, opens herself up to a sensitive, subjective experience of the Gaspé area. From a fictional point of view, Préludes explores the contours of an elegiac, vibrant nature placed in contact with the ephemeral presence of humankind, in a world where temporalities blend. 

Chieko Shiraishi is a true virtuoso of the silver print, a technique she uses to better enhance her images. Her very special world is both poetic and deeply introspective. 

Opening hours of the Vaste et Vague artist center: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. (Free admission) (Accueil | Centre d’artistes Vaste et Vague).  

Retrospective in images of our 15-year history, open to the public (tickets on sale at: https://shorturl.at/jnPY0 )

On Saturday, May 18, a photo evening will be taking place featuring the most striking images of Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie since its very beginning. The event’s director, Claude Goulet, will be in attendance. A moment to look forward to! 

Saturday, May 18, at 8 p.m. at the Quai des arts Studio 

Top image : Maude Arsenault, Naviguer dans un océan de chair (Sailing in an ocean of flesh), 2024.