A vitrine project as part of the programm Artiste-animateur en milieu de loisir in partnership with Ville de Montréal and the Centre culturel Georges-Vanier.

Espace dé-filé is an invitation to explore the close-knit spaces of our collective unconscious. With the participants of textile arts workshops at Georges-Vanier Centre, the artist unravels art, fashion, gender, etc, in an attempt to sew together some points of connection. Is life a never-ending masquerade? Is authenticity still possible? This collective art installation forms a change room where the likeness and dissimilitude of the microcosm of the urban landscape are brought forward.

Pioneer of "yarnbombing" or knit-graffiti in Québec, Marilène Gaudet seeks to take down barriers between people, arts and crafts by cozying over the urban landscape, reclaiming public spaces and initiating intercultural and intergenerational collaborations.

She holds a masters of art therapy and a bachelor of fine arts and psychology at Concordia University in Montreal. Fibropath since early childhood and Ville-Laine from 2011 to 2014, her in situ textile installations are a process and a symbol, an opportunity for individual and collective creative expression and seek to break the anonymity and grind of city life.

In 2015, she had a solo show at Stewart Hall in Pointe-Claire, she knitted a public piano and took part of Common Space? in Montreal and Liverpool with Sam Meech, UK. Marilène received two cultural mediation grants from the city of Montréal, in 2013 and 2014.

Participants:

Liliane Bédard
Stéphanie Bernier-Monzon
Micheline Bertrand
Noémie Da Silva
Annie Hudon Laroche
Francine Gravel
Lucie Lambert
Jacqueline Mathieu
Jacqueline McNicoll-Legault
Odile Tardieu
Elise Thierry