Jean-Michel Leclerc
Magali Baribeau-Marchand

SAGAMIE X Centre CLARK — RELIER : Résidence de micro-édition
Friday September 6, 5pm
Launch

RELIER takes the form of micro-publishing residencies at Centre SAGAMIE.

The artists will be jointly selected with three partner centers in this project according to their provenance (AXENÉO7 in Gatineau, Centre CLARK in Montreal et VU in Quebec).

Three artists from the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region will thus be twinned in pairs with three artists from the Gatineau, Montreal and Quebec regions.

These residencies are not only a space for creation, but also a territory for sharing. The selected artists will be invited to carry out their personal creative projects, while sharing their ideas about micro-publishing, their knowledge and skills in partnership with their residency twin.

Jean-Michel Leclerc

Developed as part of a micro-publishing residency at Centre SAGAMIE in April 2024 and subsequent months, the project Le jour de partir is part of a process that seeks to develop different strategies for reading history through an approach that combines diverse fields of interest (historical sciences, LGBTQ+ studies, ethnobotany) with exploratory technical processes.

Deployed in the form of a publication built around a series of 12 recent drawings and a set of short texts, this research is intended as a space for reflection on the varied forms that notions of temporality, material culture and inhabited space can take, through the printed object.

Jean-Michel Leclerc would like to thank the Centre Sagamie and Émili Dufour for their support throughout the project, as well as the Centre CLARK.

Title: Le jour de partir
Size: 5.75 X 7.5 in.
Number of pages: 40 with the cover
Binding: Folded and stapled
Cover: Kraft
Paper: Cougar naturel

Magali Baribeau-Marchand

This micro-publication is part of Magali Baribeau-Marchand’s Méfiez-vous des eaux qui dorment research cycle, which focuses on the pond as a figure of poetic resistance and biodiversity. After visiting various ponds in the Parc national de la Pointe-Taillon (Sépaq) in Lac-Saint-Jean, she worked with fragments of images, rephotographing, cutting, recollaging and resampling. Her colorful frames and listed words bring to life the still waters that hold back the possible.

Magali Baribeau-Marchand would like to thank Mathilde Martel-Coutu and Centre SAGAMIE, as well as the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ), for funding through the Programme de partenariat territorial du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean.

Title: Étangs donnés
Size: 6.5 X 8 in
Number of pages: 34 with the cover
Binding: Wire-O
Cover: Kraft
Paper: Cougar naturel