Métier et Mérite

Biennale internationale du lin de Portneuf
Deschambault-Grondines and Saint-Raymond, Quebec
June 20 - September 27, 2015

Co-curated by Lalie Douglas and Barbara Wisnoski, Métier et Mérite, comprised three exhibitions in which twenty-two artists from Quebec, Ontario, Argentina, Belgium, Colombia, the United States and the Netherlands explored the notion of ‘work and worth’ (French ‘métier et mérite’) through a diversity of creative processes: sculpture, installation, drawing, photography, video and performance. Eight artists were invited to create their work on site during a residency period in which the public had the opportunity to engage personally with the artists as they worked.

Read more about the project here.

Broken Land: Stories Told and Retold

Lalie Douglas solo exhibition, curated by Barbara Wisnoski

Salle Alfred-Pellan, Maison des arts de Laval, Laval, QC
November 30, 2014 - February 8, 2015

A house is a ‘psychic state’: the place we call home is a physical space but also an emotional one, shaped in our imagination by an accumulation of personal memories and family stories. In Broken Land: Stories told and retold, Lalie Douglas invents a world both familiar and uncanny, where domestic and natural environments collide in a metaphoric expression of impending doom.

This exhibition takes up a number of Douglas’ essential themes, such as the use of miniature as a metaphor for interiority, the notion of vague or unsolved narratives that trigger our tendency to draw lines between two points ― that is, to invent stories by establishing relationships between elements ― and the power of the false to reveal the truth.

Link to event here
Link to curatorial statement here