For several years now, Eveline Boulva’s artistic practice has focused on the themes of territory and landscape, opening up a fertile dialogue between the arts and geography. Her creative process is rooted in the field, in the different territories she travels through, including natural spaces (high mountains, glaciers, volcanoes), or humanized regions (cities, industrial zones), depending on the project. These spaces – which can simply be crossed, but which the artist prefers to survey, walk through and observe slowly, for a long time – become subjects for reflection, conducive to visual documentation. Eveline is interested in issues linked to territorial development and the environment: its fragility, evolution and preservation. Here, the ecological question takes on increasing importance, as the consequences of the alteration of natural spaces by human action are visible in many areas.
Drawing is the predominant mode of creation in Eveline Boulva’s practice. In her work, she maintains a recurring relationship with photography, as well as a detour of techniques from printmaking. In concrete terms, in the creative process, the visual documentation gathered during her various explorations becomes the basic material for the conceptualization and creation of her works.
Eveline Boulva holds a doctorate in art and geography from Université Laval. Her work has been presented in Quebec in some forty exhibitions, including the group shows C’est arrivé près de chez vous and Nous (MNBAQ, 2008, 2023) and the solo show Des lieux et des temps (Musée du Bas-St-Laurent, 2012). She has also presented her work internationally, notably in France at the Grand Palais for Art Paris 2012.
Her work can be found in the following collections:
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (CPOA 2007, 2008, 2010)
Bibliothèque Nationale du Québec
Hydro-Québec
Desjardins (acquisition 2011, 2014, 2018)
Loto-Québec (acquisitions 2008, 2010, 2011)
World Affairs Canada
Méduse Collection
Colart Collection
Artothèque de la bibliothèque Gabrièle-Roy
Atelier de l’Île
Atelier Frans Masereel, Kasterlee, Belgium
MuHKA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy
As well as several private collections in Canada and Europe.
