Au seuil du corps sensible

OPENING: Saturday, May 23, from 2 p.m.

 

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

In the exhibition Au seuil du corps sensible, the body unfolds as vibrant matter, at the crossroads of the biological and the sensory. The skin that envelops it marks out its territory while forming a fragile edge where the intimate meets the outside, where the marks of time and the imprints of life are inscribed. Here and there emerge fruit-bodies, landscape-bodies and matter-bodies whose nature evokes the perishable, the unstable, even the transitory. These unsettling forms deploy an aesthetic of ambivalence, suspended on a shifting threshold between repulsion and attraction. Through them, the artists explore the porosity of the body and its capacity to carry and transmit memory. The works reveal traces, scars and alterations as so many active processes disclosing the continuous genesis of a body in the making, bearer of a history, a life, a memory.

– Excerpt from the text by Émilie Granjon and Chiara Fossati

 

In an examination of what lies beneath the skin and the forces acting upon it, four artists offer embodied considerations on the corporeal effects of overconsumption, the political realities of labour, and our collective, depleting reverence for craftsmanship and the agency of materials. Their work weaves through the machinations and myths that obscure a fundamental human longing for land, earth, and relational repair. Together, Amaralina Ramalho Alvarez, Lucy Gill, Mylene Raiche, and Anne-Sophie Vallée present a methodology of tactical inquiry. They reveal that the body is not a container designed to keep us out of the world, but a porous vessel deeply entangled with our external reality.

– Excerpt from curatorial text, by Jega Delisca

 

Artist biographies

Amaralina Ramalho Alvarez

Amaralina Ramalho Alvarez is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal. Her work explores the political dimension of the ephemeral and of transmission, questioning the relationships between time, memory and the body. She has taken part in several group exhibitions, including Souviens-toi de nous quand tu regardes, in partnership with LABARD and the Centre culturel Georges-Vanier. Her work has also been presented at the RIPA festival: Performance actuelle, as part of a public art project with the City of Chambly, and at the 8^th edition of the artch festival. In 2027, she will present her first solo exhibition at the Centre culturel Georges-Vanier.

Lucy Gill

Lucy Gill is an artist from the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples (Vancouver), now living in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal. Their work blends references to agriculture, the body and the environment, using a sustainable material made from fruit leather. The fragility of their work, along with its capacity to adapt and transform, emphasizes reconnection and a return to nature rather than permanence, omnipresence and commodification. Gill’s work has been exhibited in Montréal, most recently in CORED, a two-person exhibition with Josh Jensen at Produit Rien, as well as in the Art Volt Collection exhibition at the FoFA Gallery (2025) and Ground Level, First Floor at Emporium Builders Supplies (2025). Their curatorial projects include Filaments at Produit Rien (2025) and Goldenrod at Ateliers Belleville (2024).

Mylene Raiche

Mylene Raiche is a visual and textile artist based in Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka, Quebec. She holds an MFA (Fibres and Material Practices) from Concordia University and has presented her work in several solo and group exhibitions in Quebec, Ontario and the United States. She has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, including two grants from the territorial partnership program for the arts and letters of Montérégie-Ouest. Her work is part of sustained research in contemporary textile art.

Anne-Sophie Vallée

Anne-Sophie Vallée lives and works in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal. Her artistic practice mainly explores sculpture and craft practices related to metalwork. She recently graduated from the MFA program in the Sculpture department at Concordia University (2025). She previously studied visual arts at NSCAD University in Halifax, then was an MFA candidate in the Jewelry and Metalsmithing program at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, United States. Anne-Sophie recently exhibited her work at Centre Materia, the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery and the FoFA Gallery.

 

Curator biographies

Émilie Granjon

Holding a PhD in semiology (UQAM, 2008) and a graduate diploma (D.E.S.S.) in cultural organization management (HEC Montréal, 2015), Émilie Granjon has directed the artist-run centre CIRCA art actuel since 2016. Émilie Granjon is also an art theorist, essayist and independent curator. She is the author of Comprendre la symbolique alchimique (2012) and co-wrote, with Fabienne Claire Caland, Cinq fabricants d’univers (2017) and Miroirs, métamorphose et temps inversé (2020). She has also curated several exhibitions, including Déjouer les sens (2017-2021), LUMINA (2019) and Matière Lumière (2022).

Chiara Fossati

Chiara Fossati is a curator, artist and art director. Based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal and originally from Lausanne (Switzerland), she holds a bachelor’s degree in art history from the University of Lausanne (2018). Her practice first developed in the film industry, where she worked in art direction. Drawing on this experience, she now pursues an approach at the crossroads of exhibition curating, installation and scenography, in which her different activities respond to and influence one another. She notably co-curated and co-designed the exhibitions Tromper l’œil (Montréal, 2023) and Lèche-vitrine (Montréal, 2026).

Jega Delisca

Jega Delisca is a portraitist, curator and art educator based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal and originally from West Palm Beach, Florida. He is currently pursuing a BFA at Concordia University. The youngest of six brothers and the son of Haitian immigrants, Delisca’s identity as a queer Black man and Floridian immigrant in Toronto shapes his artistic vision and his ongoing exploration of masculinities. Delisca recently co-curated the exhibition One Way Ashore, A Thousand Chanels at Sawa House (Montréal, QC) and took part in the 8^th edition of the artch festival (Montréal, QC).