Ianick Raymond's primarily pictorial practice explores the challenges of painting raised by the important role that the digital image currently plays. Driven by a desire to elude visual reflexes, he creates visual spaces that at first appear to be obvious, but the complexity of which gradually reveals itself to the viewer who comes into contact with their materiality. His current research focuses on the effect of light and texture in the execution and viewing of a painting.
The micro-publishing project Extension brings together a set of drawings that he created during the pandemic. The transposition of his circle of friends and family into images, reminiscent of a diary of his everyday life, will be paralleled with a text by Pierre-Marc Asselin. Between Raymond's pictorial approach, which questions the limits of the gaze, and Asselin's literary practice, which investigates the mechanisms with which we construct our relationship to reality, several avenues will be explored; a mixture of genres somewhere between the graphic novel, the travel journal and the artist's book.
A finalist at the RBC Canadian Painting Competition in 2011, Ianick Raymond completed a master's degree in visual and media arts at the Université du Québec à Montréal in 2017. For the past ten years, his work has been disseminated across Canada and has earned him numerous grants (SSHRC, FRQSC, CALQ, CCA). He has also completed several projects integrating art with architecture and the environment, including the new CBC headquarters. His works can be found in many private, corporate and institutional collections.
Pierre-Marc Asselin's essays and short stories have appeared in Moebius, Contre-jour, Captures, Nyx, Quartier F, Revue Saturne andCrachoir de Flaubert. As part of his doctoral studies in literature that he is currently pursuing at the Université du Québec à Montréal, he explores American short stories and the interaction between narratives and cognitive sciences. In June 2021, he published an article in Captures that dialogues with five photographs of Raymond's paintings. His first collection of short stories, Reliques profanes, was published by Editions du Boréal in September 2021.
