In her practice Sophie Jodoin explores the body as a space that is lived, inhabited and sensed, straddling the intimate and collective. Her hybrid, installation-based work combines drawing, photography, collage, writing, archival materials, and video. Her recent exhibitions include il faut qu’elle sache at the Jan Michalski Foundation (Switzerland), d’un seul souffle at Artexte (Montreal), un portrait inachevé – partition à deux voix at VU (Quebec City), and Toi que jamais je ne termine at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. She is the recipient of the Louis-Comtois Prize and the Giverny Capital Prize (2017), as well as the Prix La Caisse en art actuel (2025).
The project she is proposing for her residency at the Centre SAGAMIE builds on her previous work, in which texts, images, and selected fragments capture traces of a life—whether real or fictional. The life in question here is that of a mother: her own mother. Since 2020, the artist and her mother have been collaborating through letters, co-written notebooks, and photographs. The residency is based on this textual and visual dialogue, in which two close women reveal themselves to one another. In a letter dated September 28, 2020, the artist’s mother describes her life as “… a book that you open and close and open again.” This project echoes that book: her dreams, her desires, her longings, her loneliness. It also serves as a reflection on old age, memory, mourning, and absence.
