Alix Galdin
Saguenay
I am a Franco-Canadian artist, photographer and filmmaker based in Saguenay. I have been practicing analogue photography since childhood, but it was in 2016 that I began to fully explore its creative potential. In 2019, I incorporated moving images into my work, exploring various analogue formats such as 35mm, Super 8, Polaroid and 110 film.
My creative approach is rooted in openness and a willingness to be present in the moment, where an encounter with a place, a presence or a material becomes the starting point for the artistic process. This empirical approach favours a slow pace, careful observation of everyday life and an embrace of the unexpected. Physical engagement with craft techniques, experimentation and mistakes foster a visual language that highlights the materiality of images and their transformation.
From a very early age, I developed a fascination with vernacular photography thanks to my family archives. As part of the Relier 2.0 residency, I aim to put together a micro-publication using (re)photographs from family archives that have undergone a chemical process. This work explores how inherited images can be manipulated, transformed and reinterpreted to produce meaning.
Débora Flor
Quebec City
Via a practice grounded in encounters and listening, my work explores the connections between the body, places and passed down stories. I am interested in everyday gestures, care practices and knowledge associated with femininity, which reveal how memory, presence and transmission are woven into lived spaces.
For the Centre SAGAMIE residency, I propose to expand this research through an artist’s book, inspired by the project Depuis que le monde est monde, which explores birth as a defining transition and a transformative moment in which the personal and the collective converge. The book becomes an independent space where memory, the body and territories engage in dialogue, and where the voices and gestures that have shaped the project take on a new editorial form.
Somewhere between a personal archive, a ritual and a talisman, the object invites a slow, contemplative reading – a sensory journey rather than a quick glance. Each page becomes a stepping stone, a threshold, a space where the stories and presences that run through the project resonate.
Beyond the end result, this work is a process of translation and transmission, transforming an immersive experience into editorial language capable of spreading and prolonging the memories, gestures and voices that have brought the project to life since its inception.
A launch for Alix Galdin and Débora Flor's micro-publications will take place at VU in Quebec City, followed by another at La Galerie L'Œuvre de L'Autre in Chicoutimi.
