We are pleased to present the exhibition Les horizons marqueurs, curated by Anne-Sophie Blanchet, in Quebec City, following its first presentation at the Salle Alfred-Pellan in Laval.
” The horizon, that thin line that separates the sky and the earth, is also what, enables us, from a distance, to appreciate the full scope of our view. In the landscape, it serves as both border and a measure of distance. In geology, this horizon is multiplied into a series sediments layers, each corresponding to a distinct period. The horizon – or rather, the horizons – then become visual markers, signaling the transition from one era to the next, not just on the surface, but in the ground: the linear time of humanity is thus juxtaposed with the Earth’s vertical time.
For Amélie Proulx, the horizon thus constitutes a limit, a distance and a temporal marker, which she poetically appropriates through a series of new works. At the frontier between the ancestral art of ceramics and digital arts, the artist traces the path of her most recent adventures across Quebec. The exhibition as a whole can be understood as a vast installation where several temporalities meet and overlap, and where a reflection on the interplay of reciprocal influences that binds us to the territory and to History unfolds. ”
– Anne Sophie Blanchet
Amélie Proulx’s work highlights the perpetual metamorphosis of the living. Drawing from the techniques and codes of the art professions, she pushes the limits of the material, questions conventions and leaves room for the unexpected in her approach. The result is evocative forms from which emanates a moving fragility. She has this rare talent to create a balance between her rationality and her intuition and does not hesitate to question her own practice through successful mises en abyme. Based on a solid technique, the artist proposes a vast range of works whose stylistic and formal choices respond to the concepts she chooses to explore.
Amélie Proulx lives and works in Lévis. She holds a BFA from Concordia University and an MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University in Halifax. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Canada, the United States, Scotland, Australia and France. In 2013, she won the RBC Emerging Artist People’s Choice Award presented at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto, and in 2016, she received the Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics presented by the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery. In 2021, she received the Videre Creation Award in Visual Arts. Her work can be found in numerous private and public collections, including the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, the Art Gallery of Burlington, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, Concordia University and the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.
