Rémi Belliveau
Rémi Belliveau's artistic approach is rooted in the Acadian culture to which they belong, which is often caught between its past -its history, folklore, stories, customs- and its present composed of its diaspora, social struggles, language and popular culture. This complex heritage, from the distant and recent past , the present and even the future, is the raw material of their work.
Belliveau seeks to problematize Acadian culture by confronting it with its multiple contradictions, linked to its hybrid status, which oscillates between folkloric and contemporary. They explore these contradictions through an interdisciplinary approach that blurs the boundaries between the creative posture of the artist, sometimes musician, and that of the more institutional historian-archivist, sometimes musicologist.
Through these postures, their artistic work strives to deconstruct and reprogram the foundations, structures and imaginaries of the Acadian culture in order to cultivate capacities of (self) analysis and critical sense.
Biography
Rémi Belliveau is an interdisciplinary artist and Acadian musician from Belliveau-Village in Memramcook Valley, in New-Brunswick, an Acadian hamlet located on Mi'kma'ki, the unceded ancestral territory of the Mi'kmaq people. Since 2012, their work has been presented in several events, group exhibitions and solo exhibitions including the Sobey Award exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada for which they were a finalist for the Atlantic region. In parallel to their artistic practice, they have co-curated the Galerie Sans Nom in Moncton, from 2014 to 2018, has twice acted as (co)curator (2015, 2018), and has been a lecturer at the Université de Moncton (2017). They have contributed texts to Canadian Art magazine.
Recent exhibitions
| 2022 | Bird[s] in [cyber]Space, duo with Djinn Proxy, Atelier d’estampe Imago, Moncton, CA Radiant Rural Halls 1, group exhibition, multiple locations, organized by This Town is Small, Prince-Edward-Island, CA |
| 2021 | Exposition du prix Sobey pour les arts 2021, group exhibition, Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, CA |
| 2020 | Hier semble si loin / Chapitre 4 / Jean Dularge, Group Exhibition, Galerie de l’UQAM, Montréal, CA |
| 2019 | Dissonances rurales, solo exhibition, Galerie d’art Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen, Moncton University, Moncton, CA Les histoires nécessaires, group exhibition, Galerie d’art Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen et Musée acadien, Université de Moncton, Moncton, CA Un ailleurs toujours présent, group exhibition, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, CA |