Marie-Renée Bourget Harvey
Biography
Marie-Renée Bourget Harvey is fascinated and moved by humans, the arts and the land. A graphic designer by trade, she took a necessary detour in anthropology and the visual arts before completing her training in stage design at the Conservatoire d’art dramatique de Québec in 2005. She is also the co-founder of the artistic worksites/constructions of the Carrefour international de théâtre. Marie-Renée has had the pleasure of collaborating with many talented directors, creators and artists in creating sensitive, fragmented and multiple spaces. She tends towards a more conscious, more open, more benevolent practice where the ephemeral character of materials tends to disappear or rather to be transformed. She is always looking for accuracy and cohesion in creation and is driven by the desire to infuse poetry, both on stage and in everyday life.
Summary of the project
Kanitau-unahitshesht. Homage to the High Trapper
This Homage to the High Trapper/Kanitau-unahitshesht is an inverted reference to Riopelle’s famous masterpiece L’Hommage à Rosa Luxemburg, the “high trapper” – Kanitau-unahitshesht in the Ilnu language – a nickname coined by André Breton, leader of the Surrealist movement. To create the series of paintings in L’Hommage à Rosa Luxemburg, Riopelle took long walks on Isle-aux-Grues and Ile-aux-Oies and collected various objects and fauna and flora samples. He would then place these objects on wooden boards and stencil them with spray paint. The youth of Mashteuiatsh, in the region of Lac-Saint-Jean, will be called upon to apply a similar process to various objects from their immediate environment found on their Indigenous community’s territory to create their own artworks. They will collect sounds from their space and create compositions using fonofone-image, an innovative digital tool developed by project partner Cosimu to combine music and image.
Important dates in 2023 📅
- June 1st → Launch at Old Convent of Saint-Prime
- All summer 2023 → Exhibition at the Vieux Couvent of Saint-Prime and the Mashteuiatsh Museum
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Realized within the framework of the centenary
The creation of the Foundation was inspired by the dream of Jean Paul Riopelle, who wished to pass on his passion for art, his vision and inspire the next generation of artists to explore, innovate and surpass their creative potential.
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