Image… envoyée / Image… Sent

Special openings on Saturday, September 19, 2020 (European Heritage Days) and Saturday, October 3, 2020 (Nuit Blanche)

From September 17, 2020 to September 17, 2021 ,discover our virtual exhibition Image… Sent at canada-culture.org/virtualexhibition

This exhibition celebrating the 50^th anniversary of the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris brings together 36 new photographic projets by major Canadian contemporary artists, as well 50 special images shared by Canadian and French citizens.

Created during the lockdown, the exhibition show how our vision of the world has changed, through the artists’ images showing current and personal visions of their world, in Canada. A symbolic project produced specifically for France and consciously addressed to the French. The exhibition also pays tribute to the longstanding friendship between Canada and France thanks to images created by the French for Canadians and by Canadians for the French.

Guest artists: Jocelyne Alloucherie, Stephen Andrews, Sara Angelucci, Ming Arcand & Denys Arcand, IAIN BAXTER& (the &man), Robert Bean, Dominique Blain, Marie-Claire Blais, Dianne Bos, Michel Campeau, Bertrand Carrière, Millie Chen, Serge Clément, Robin Collyer, Louis Couturier & Jacky G. Lafargue, Donigan Cumming, Stan Douglas, Pascal Grandmaison, Angela Grauerholz, Adad Hannah, Isabelle Hayeur, Geoffrey James, Mark Lewis, Jimmy Manning, Aude Moreau, Nadia Myre, Ian Paterson, Ed Pien, Michael Snow, Lisa Steele & Kim Tomczak, Jana Sterbak, Public Studio (Elle Flanders & Tamira Sawatzky), Adrian Stimson, Diana Thorneycroft, Michèle Waquant, Johannes Zits

With a special pan-Canadian project by Geoffrey James

With a Canada-France citizen component bringing together 50 participants, including a special contribution from Franco-Canadian artist Hervé Fischer.

Participating Canadian citizens: Daniel Beaudry, Roger Blain, Philippe Boissonnet & Lorraine Beaulieu, Milanka Bunard, Chun Hua Catherine Dong, Kennedy Collins, Debbie Cormier, Amandine du Poitou, Michael Easton, Hervé Fischer, Majid Jahan, Thibaut Ketterer, Patrick Klassen, Andrew W. Lawrence, Bill MacKay, Paul Murasko, Deanna Osmond, Mike Patten, Marie-Soleil ‘Sunny’ Provençal, Kassandra Reynolds, Maxime Rheault, Bob St-Cyr, Walter Segers

Participating French citizens: Christian Berthault, Chane, ManoLO Chrétien, Sarah Cohen, Anne-Sophie Coppin, Céline de la Asuncion, Pascale de Rességuier, Mélanie Dornier, Matthieu Fournel, Valentine Gentilleau, Claudie Gest, Hélène Halatcheff, IAAAI, A.S. Journée-Duez, Georges Lambert, Bluenn Layolle, Estelle Magnin, Kathleen Meier, Fevronia Novac, Adrien Nowac, Jennifer Orhélys, Pascal Perennec, Jordane Prestrot, Pyjproject, Nanta Ranarison, Frédéric Soltan, Manon Weiser

Curator: Catherine Bédard

This event is part of the Journées Européennes du Patrimoine, the Semaine des cultures étrangères (FICEP) and Nuit Blanche.