- Precary
- Tragi-comic
- Ludic
About
By combining paper sculptures, prints, sound and video art, the collective creates in-situ installations that address the growing precariousness affecting citizens, public institutions, the cultural sector and its workers. They develop a corpus of works bringing together the print and the installation to evoke the image of the construction site. By joyfully turning this figure away, artists seek to instil a sense of hope. This approach celebrates construction as a collective moment of regaining power and self-determination. For their residence-exhibition at La Charpente, they propose to work on a multidisciplinary and immersive installation that addresses, in a tragi-comic tone, the precariousness of cultural institutions, through the metaphor of the renovation site. Through the strategy of the assumed trompe-l'oeil and the simplicity of the paper, this in-situ exhibition celebrates fragility and resilience.
Credits
Establishment — Collectif Sans Acronyme (LCSA): Maxime Sauvage, Felix Tremblay and Manon Package
Biographies
The Collectif Sans Acronyme (LCSA) The Collectif Sans Acronyme (LCSA) brings together Manon Paquet, Maxime Sauvage and Felix Tremblay. Driven by the desire to break down their individual practices, they are developing self-destructive, installation projects with visual and cultural references from popular culture. The birth of the CBCA in 2024 was marked by its very first project in the 2+1 residence at the Engram artist centre. The collective now aspires to participate in many future projects and to disseminate the fruit of their creative work. Refusing any limit, the CBCA combines lightly stamped, sound art, video, collage sculpture and installation. Manon Package Manon Paquet is an artist from Quebec City. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in plastic arts from Concordia University in Montreal (2020). She is a Fellow of Première Ovation, Levier, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and twice the Canada Council for the Arts in Research and Creation. Manon is expressed in several mediums, but her favourite vehicle is the print, which she is exploring in a contemporary way. She has made creative residences in Zea Mays (USA) and Engram (Quebec, with Le Collectif Sans Acronyme (LCSA) ). His work has been presented in several collective exhibitions in Quebec City and Montreal (Culture Beauport, 2026) as well as in individual exhibitions (Manif d'art en bibliothèques, 2025 and Centre de diffusion Presse-Papier, Trois-Rivières, 2026). Felix Tremblay Félix Tremblay is an artist living and working in Quebec City. He holds a bachelor's degree in visual and media arts from Laval University and explores the limitations of our ability to grasp events beyond our control, creating narration-printed visual works. An emerging artist, he has participated in several collective exhibitions, including "The time we wanted to cut our hair" (2016), "Personala Grata" (2017) and "In the meantime, things are coming to mind" (2017). He was also present at the "Laboratory Colloquium ; Agency augmented" and "Are-Sommes-sonne" projects (2023) in Avatar. In 2023, he exhibited at the current art fair in Quebec City and was invited by the Musée national des beaux-arts de Québec to create the Resonance project. Printer and cultural mediator, Félix has carried out some 15 mandates in cultural mediation since 2019, actively contributing to Québec City's artistic dynamic. Maxim Wild Maxime Sauvage is an artist who works mainly in art-action and installation. Fundamentally contextual, his practice tracks the logics of productivity and efficiency that shape our relationship to the world, focusing on the traces they leave behind. He holds a master's degree in visual arts at Laval University and also holds a bachelor's degree in fine arts from Concordia University and another in environmental design at UQAM. His work appeared and disappeared through collective and individual exhibitions, art-action events, residences and, above all, tireless wanderings.