Background painting
Henri and Louise (Marrakech, 1934), Oils on canvas, 73 x 54 cm (diptych 146 x 54 cm)
Série Les protecteurs ou Le spleen du Maroc (1929 – 1955), 2024
Mirroring memories: Exploring colonization legacy through archives, memory, and artistic dialogue
Presenter
Caroline Delétoille
Quantum Studio artist-in-residence
14:00 – 15:30
Thu Nov 7, 2024
PCN 2012
6445 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
Abstract
Colonization, dominated and dominant: what visions, what voices, what legacies? What does this memory tell when we touch on to the most intimate – the family – and try to approach the question of identity and the relationship to the other? Family stories shape, question, and nourish the imagination. They also build identity. Small stories are the product of the great History. How can we reconcile a sum of plural subjectivities?
Caroline Delétoille will be sharing about her art practice and elaborate through these questions, mirroring her familial history of military settlers with the artist Flora Mae Nguyen’s own perspective of colonized history. Beloved lands, fantasized or forgotten landscapes, memories of the elders. The project chooses not to oppose, but to pool intimate legacies, to try to define the contours of a common memory, a sum of imaginary identities.
BIO
Caroline Delétoille is artist in residence at the Belkin and the Quantum Matter Institute. She is a visual artist whose work raises the question of the traces of memory, the everyday and the passage of time. She paints through various techniques (oil, engraving, screen printing, photography, etc.) to which she associates writing, in a search for pictoriality and narration. Her works have been presented in France and Spain. She was notably exhibited at Gallery Opening in Barcelona and had a solo show in 2023 at the IESA gallery in Paris. She combines her personal insights with a narrative approach towards memory, integrating writing into her creative process to explore pictorial material and storytelling. For additional review of Caroline Delétoille’s work: https://www.carolinedeletoille.com