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Epistola ✉️
April 30, 2022 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Presented from April 22 to May 27 2022
Opening reception Saturday April 30th from 5:30 to 7:30pm at IMAGO Gallery (Aberdeen Cultural Centre).
The writer sends an envelope by mail to the printmaker. The envelope can contain a word, a sentence, a poem, an object, anything. They begin a three-month correspondence. The artist can reciprocate with an image, an object, a letter and so on. The contents of the envelopes are the starting points to the printmakers work. This edition will paired the author Mo Bolduc with artist Annie France Noël. Épistola is presented as part of the FRYE Festival.
Elsewhere does not exist
A break, a crevice, a wound. They write from under-over a limbo, between two physical and psychic spaces. A move, caulking. They try to bring their margins together, to glue them back together, to repair them. A fragmented conversation, in time and through the territory that stretches between Tiohti:áke and Mi’kma’ki, between words and visions, between Mo Bolduc and Annie France Noël. Questions thrown, laments, sentences in suspense. With these fragments, elsewhere does not exist illustrates a process of scarring.
Mo Bolduc is a multidisciplinary queer artist from New Brunswick and currently lives in Montreal. Having studied theatre before taking up writing, the artist builds their life around creation in all of its forms. Mo’s second collection of poetry, Matin Onguent, which deepens their research into romantic relationships and the limits of language through a quest for identity, was published by Éditions Perce-Neige in October 2021.
Annie France Noël is a queer Acadian visual artist and cultural worker. Her practice observes intimate and vulnerable aspects of the human experience through various photographic and interdisciplinary approaches. Guided by their own lived experiences, recent work by Annie France deconstructs the difficult, hidden and ambivalent emotions of parenthood through self-portraiture, staging, and data processing.
Registration, like face masks, are not required, but encouraged.