Loto-Québec, the Centre SAGAMIE, and the Centre d’exposition de Val-David are inviting professional artists, both emerging and already established, working in all visual arts disciplines, to submit an application for the project Zone of Passage, under the curatorship of Manon Regimbald. This group exhibition project aims to forge links between the contemporary art world and some of the 5,000 works in the Loto-Québec Collection.

The four selected artists will be invited to create an original work. This quartet of new projects will be paired with works from the Collection Loto-Québec to create a group exhibition. Approximately twenty works from the Collection Loto-Québec, all selected by the curator, will be combined with the proposals of the artists chosen during this call for submissions.

The exhibition's identity will emerge from discussions between the curator and the artists, with support from the respective Centre SAGAMIE and Loto-Québec teams.

The final form of this collaborative project will first be presented at the Centre d'exposition de Val-David in September 2026 and, the following year, at the Centre SAGAMIE.

Application terms

Quebec artists who wish to submit their application must do so by December 1, 2025 at 11:59 pm EST.

The application must include the following information:

  • An artist statement, maximum 300 words;
  • Ten (10) images of recent works (Mac-compatible jpg files, RGB, 1024 x 768 pixels at 72 ppi);
  • A CV;

The application proposal must be submitted in a compressed .zip file or via WeTransfer at: coordination@sagamie.com. The selected artists will be notified of the jury's decision by January 16, 2026, at the latest.

Timeline

Deadline for submitting applications:
December 1, 2025

Announcement of the selected artists:
January 19, 2026

Exhibition at the Centre d’exposition de Val-David Exposition:
September 27, 2026 to January 3, 2027

Exhibition at the Centre SAGAMIE:
January 14 to March 18, 2027

Financial terms and conditions

  • $2,500 production fee per artist (note: the work will remain the property of the artist)
  • Up to $500 in printing costs covered by Centre SAGAMIE
  • CARFAC exhibition fee for each of the exhibitions

Technical provisions

  • Technical support provided by Centre SAGAMIE
  • Support provided by the curator and Loto-Québec

A collection for the benefit of all

The Collection Loto-Québec comprises nearly 5,000 works by more than 1,200 artists. Since its creation in 1979, the Collection has been an important link in Québec's artistic heritage, encouraging contemporary visual art creation and promoting local artists. To ensure that its collection remains vibrant and is seen and appreciated beyond its walls, Loto-Québec has launched a series of initiatives to make art accessible throughout Québec.

Val-David Exhibition Centre

As an accredited museum institution, the Centre's mission is to showcase, appreciate and promote the work of professional artists. In recognition of it's museum education and cultural mediation program, the Centre was awarded the 2011 prize from the Canadian Museums Association and the Canadian Teachers' Federation. In 2023, the institution won the Best Cultural Organization award from Culture Laurentides and was a finalist for the Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Community Programs.

Centre SAGAMIE

Centre SAGAMIE is a production centre dedicated to contemporary art whose research and creation activities are linked to contemporary image issues. The centre specializes in digital printing and micro-publishing residencies. It also has a mandate to disseminate the work of artists through exhibitions and publications that foster the advancement of contemporary artists.

Manon Regimbald

Manon Regimbald (Ph.D. in visual arts semiotics) is a former associate professor in the Art History department at UQAM and the current Director of the Centre d'exposition de Val-David. Driven by a concern for landscape art, she is interested in the problematics of place as well as the overlap of text and image, viewed from an interdisciplinary perspective. As an independent curator, she has organized many exhibitions (Fondation des Jardins du Précambrien, Paysages éphémères, Montreal, Symposium Parc de Sculpture at musée de Lachine, etc.) and has contributed essays to numerous art magazines, such as Espace Sculpture, Spirale, Revue Textimage, AE Canadian Aesthetics Journal, Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, and various books, among which Le territoire à l’œuvre, Territoires Le Québec Habitat, Ressources, Imaginaires (Musée de la Civilisation, Québec ), Tracking Images Melvin Charney un dictionnaire… (Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2000). She is also the author of En marche with René Derouin, (Montreal, l’Hexagone). Regimbald has taken part in various international conferences for various organizations such the International Association for Aesthetics (Finland, Slovenia, Japan), and the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (England, Germany).

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How to apply