This exhibition represents the culmination of this project. Sharing common interests in traditional objects, heritage and ancestral know-how, Carole Baillargeon and the farmers worked together to create several works from spools of thread and wooden haute-lice tapestry spindles. The result is as touching as it is captivating!

Artist biography

Carole Baillargeon lives and works in Deschambault-Grondines. She has been pursuing her creative work for some thirty years, which has led her to carry out magnificent projects in Québec, America and Europe. Her artistic practice is a hybrid of visual arts, scenography and craft techniques.

She has received several awards, including the Prix Hommage en métiers d’art at the Prix Excellence Arts et culture in 2016; the Prix de la culture des Régions de Québec et Chaudière-Appalaches in 2000, for her international influence; and the first Ville de Québec prize at the Biennale Découverte in 1993. It has also received financial support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec.

In 2015 and 2016, the circulation of the Paysages-Vêtements exhibition, which she produced over a period of fifteen years, enabled this vast ensemble to be presented in Montréal, Trois-Rivières, and finally at the Musée d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul, which devoted the entire first floor to presenting the complete version, from February to April 2016.

Finally, she has completed doctoral studies in art studies and practice at the Université du Québec à Montréal, a master’s degree in visual arts, specializing in textile arts, and a bachelor’s degree in scenography at Concordia University.

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