. Brigitte Baillargeon, artist

 

I am a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Sherbrooke and a graduate in Visual Arts from Bishop's University. My practice, guided by intuition and experimentation, explores drawing, painting, collage, embroidery, and mixed media. I favor the materiality of paper, accident, and gesture, often incorporating thread or embroidery to establish a dialogue between the random and the determined, the fluid and the concrete. My approach is inspired by a feminine lineage, inherited from needlework passed down from generation to generation, and is part of a reflection on memory, intimacy, and the poetry of everyday life.

 

For over twenty years, I have presented my work in numerous exhibitions in Quebec, Canada and the United States, notably at the François-Dunn Community and Cultural Centre in Sherbrooke, at L'Artothèque de Montréal, at the Washington Street Art Center (South Dakota) and as part of the "Luminous Bodies" residency in Toronto. My works are part of private collections in Quebec and France. An active member of the RAAV, the Conseil de la culture de l'Estrie and the Maison des arts et de la culture de Brompton, I pursue an approach where the slowness of the gesture, the superposition and hybridization of materials become so many ways of questioning heritage, transmission and the presence of the feminine in contemporary art.

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