Around The World with 80 Textile Artists is being exhibited at MUMAQ – Musée des métiers d’arts du Québec from December 12th 2024 to March 9th 2025.
The exhibition, a celebration of textile arts on a global scaled is curated by Marie-France Bégis, and invites visitors to explore a highly personal and universal project, the result of the relationships forged over a 40-year career.
In 2022, on the eve of her 80th birthday, Louise Lemieux Bérubé began an ambitious project, the result of 40 years of career and collaborations with textile artists from all over the world.
From 1997 to 2016, Louise shared her expertise in Jacquard weaving with more than 400 participants at the Montreal Center for Contemporary Textiles, as well as through universities and international events. These enriching encounters inspired her new project, Around the World with 80 Textile Artists, a vibrant tribute to the diversity and uniqueness of the artistic practices that have marked her career.
This project was structured around three key stages:
1. Reconnecting: Through the Internet, Louise invited 80 international artists to contribute to her project, rekindling exchanges with this precious artistic community.
2. Imagining and creating: The artist has dedicated herself to the design of an innovative
work, combining different textile techniques and integrating for the first time the
knotting of paper threads.
3. Discover and assemble: Participating artists each sent a package containing a piece or sample of their work, along with a souvenir text and a portrait or photo.
This initiative, a true ode to collaboration and exchange, illustrates the importance of human and artistic relationships in Louise Lemieux Bérubé’s approach. Around the World with 80 Textile Artists is both a retrospective and a look to the future, combining memory, creativity and artistic dialogue on a global scale.
Louise Lemieux Bérubé
Montréal, November 27, 2024 — Louise was the winner of the prestigious Saidye Bronfman Award, presented by the Governor General in Ottawa on November 14, 2024, Louise Lemieux Bérubé continues her artistic exploration with the exhibition Around the World with 80 Textile Artists, presented from December 12, 2024 to March 9, 2025, at the MUMAQ – Musée des métiers d’arts du Québec (Quebec Fine Craft Museum).
A hymn to life and textile creation
The exhibition will take place in the choir and in the transept. In the choir will be exhibited works by international and Canadian artists. In the transept, the works will be found works dealing with Quebec artists. The title of the Quebec section: A Tour Of Quebec With 28 Textile Artists.
This project, both tangible and virtual, combines traditional and contemporary techniques, in particular the knotting of paper threads, and reflects a quest for artistic sustainability and intergenerational dialogue.
A new look at the creative process
A 15-minute short film accompanies the exhibition, offering an insight into the artist’s technical and creative process and the stories that shaped this adventure.
In addition, two virtual catalogs link:carnet 80-ang accessible via a QR code, allow you to extend the experience. This project was financially supported by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.
Images courtesy of Paul Fayed
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