Biography

Annie Charland Thibodeau lives and works in Québec, where she trained in sculpture. She also holds a master’s degree in performance art from the Iceland University of the Arts/Listaháskóli Íslands. Her practice has been presented in various events and solo exhibitions in Québec, notably at the Bang Centre, the centre Regart, Axenéo7 and Circa art actuel, as well as the Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke. She has also participated in artist residencies and exhibited her work abroad in Ireland, Italy, Slovenia, and Iceland.

Approach

Installation title : III (ce que nous édifions)

The exhibition project created for the 10^th NBCS invites us to reconsider monumentality as a constantly evolving phenomenon that shapes its environment and is, in turn, also shaped by it.

Monumentality, often considered a quality in the fields of architecture and art history, remains an abstract concept. The term monument refers to the object itself—memorial, architecture, work of art—while the notion of monumentality can be seen as the matrix of relationships between an object, its environment and the people who experience it.

The objects constructed in the exhibition space gradually reveal their presence. Despite their imposing stature, they are above all endowed with the performative ability to activate our relationship to space, to open us up and expose us to our environment. This artistic creation examines variations of our most common experience of monumentality; it is not a static image, but rather a site to be explored, delicately showing itself over time.