Artwork description: Neka is one of the 6 piece of my Tipelimitishun/Freedom/Liberté's exhibition, created as an immersive space at the heart of the First Nations healing process. Beyond present and past wounds and traumas, can the suffering brought to light trigger a process of appeasement, liberation, and healing? The work is combining 6 screen printing and blown glass pieces. The screen prints on canvas depict the outlines of Indigenous women's faces, created through an accumulation of 3 shades of gray. Those 3 passes in screen printing are representing transgenerational memories and traumas, as well as intergenerational knowledge and heritage passed down through generations. Each woman's individuality is captured in a beaded detail on the canvas, an example of this culturally transmitted know-how. Created from a single screen, a single matrix, each screen print has carried on the work of previous generations. The glass pieces, blown in copper cages and restraints, evoke the heaviness of opacity, the lightness of transparency, the energy of vibrant colors, or the fading of dark hues. Using the light from their cell phone or flashlight, visitors project a beam onto the glass piece, revealing on the screen-printed canvas, the intimacy of each of these women’s journeys, offering them at the same time the freedom to be, simply.
The visitor's participation is essential to the creation of the artwork, which aligns with the ethics of care movement by "prioritizing transsubjective relationships based on attention and care, time devoted, and reserved space" (Millner, J. 2021).
Artwork description long: As i explained on the short descrption, Neka is one of the 6 pieces on my exhibition Tipelimitishun, presented at the end of my baccalaureate on April 2025. With that exhibition, I received 4 awards out of 5 categories. In addition to the awards, my exhibition was the only one selected as an emerging artist exhibition for the 13th edition of the IMPACT (International Multi-disciplinary Printmaking, Artists, Concepts and Techniques) conference, held for the first time in the Americas at Trois-Rivières, the city where I was studying, in October 2025. In 2020, I started my artistic creation process because I needed to express the frustrations I was experiencing and the injustices experienced by those around me, by members of the First Nations. I started my bachelor’s degree in visual arts in 2022 and throughout my studies, I created from this rage that inhabited me. For this final year exhibition project, instead of creating by drawing on this frustration, I chose to highlight the experiences of indigenous women over generations. For the blown glass pieces, I started by creating barbed copper cages. In the hot shop, I mostly used recycled colors from some of my old pieces, sometimes mixed with color rods. At the begining, several pieces were breaking as they cooled down. I decided to reuse glass and cages to created new pieces to remain in my process of transgenerational transmission. Neka piece was created from a reused copper cage. For the screen-printed works, I again explored the transgenerational aspect here, through the use of the matrix this time. A single matrix through which the 3 passages of each of the 6 generations of women represented followed one another, from the eldest to the youngest. This whole process turned out to be very liberating, curative for me. Whether for the creation of the work or for the presentation of the installation to visitors, I immersed myself in the process of the ethics of care. I chose to take care of myself, to take care of each of the women I represented in screen printing or blown glass, to take the time to create, to live the moment, to heal myself to help them free themselves from their suffering as well. Beading once again reinforced the idea of taking time. I chose to highlight the individuality of each of the 6 woman by beading a glass beads element on each one. Neka has a bead of glass beads wrapped in an "Indian braid" which represents a hairstyle that my mother loves and that I do for her more often since she began to suffer from alzehimer five years ago.
Artwork description long: As i explained on the short descrption, Neka is one of the 6 pieces on my exhibition Tipelimitishun, presented at the end of my baccalaureate on April 2025. With that exhibition, I received 4 awards out of 5 categories. In addition to the awards, my exhibition was the only one selected as an emerging artist exhibition for the 13th edition of the IMPACT (International Multi-disciplinary Printmaking, Artists, Concepts and Techniques) conference, held for the first time in the Americas at Trois-Rivières, the city where I was studying, in October 2025. In 2020, I started my artistic creation process because I needed to express the frustrations I was experiencing and the injustices experienced by those around me, by members of the First Nations. I started my bachelor’s degree in visual arts in 2022 and throughout my studies, I created from this rage that inhabited me. For this final year exhibition project, instead of creating by drawing on this frustration, I chose to highlight the experiences of indigenous women over generations. For the blown glass pieces, I started by creating barbed copper cages. In the hot shop, I mostly used recycled colors from some of my old pieces, sometimes mixed with color rods. At the begining, several pieces were breaking as they cooled down. I decided to reuse glass and cages to created new pieces to remain in my process of transgenerational transmission. Neka piece was created from a reused copper cage. For the screen-printed works, I again explored the transgenerational aspect here, through the use of the matrix this time. A single matrix through which the 3 passages of each of the 6 generations of women represented followed one another, from the eldest to the youngest. This whole process turned out to be very liberating, curative for me. Whether for the creation of the work or for the presentation of the installation to visitors, I immersed myself in the process of the ethics of care. I chose to take care of myself, to take care of each of the women I represented in screen printing or blown glass, to take the time to create, to live the moment, to heal myself to help them free themselves from their suffering as well. Beading once again reinforced the idea of taking time. I chose to highlight the individuality of each of the 6 woman by beading a glass beads element on each one. Neka has a bead of glass beads wrapped in an "Indian braid" which represents a hairstyle that my mother loves and that I do for her more often since she began to suffer from alzehimer five years ago.