Métissages

Before taking the form of an exhibition, Métissages was an artist residency that took place in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli during the summer of 1994. The idea of a “melting pot” arose at the very conception of the residency, when two artists, Lise Labrie and Domingo Cisneros – themselves the product of a cultural and territorial “mix” – were chosen to be its curators. Labrie and Cisneros developed the theme articulated around the figure of the Métis, embodying an intersection of identities, cultures, and territories whose existence and recognition were long denied and blocked in Western history. Through the reflection on hybridity initially proposed by the theme of mixed blood, this project signalled a correspondence among various art disciplines: sculpture, photography, installation, video.