ESPACE JEUNESSE
MINI-MOUNDS
Echoing Isaac Cordal's little characters, Mini-mondes invites children aged 4 to 10 to plunge into a miniature universe, designed at their height, where the imaginary meets the poetry of detail.
Presented in the p'tite voûte in a child-friendly scenography, this exhibition brings together the sculptural works of Laurent Pagano and Andrée-Anne Laberge, two Quebec City artists who draw on their own childlike hearts to create tiny houses. Between games of scale and fanciful constructions, Mini-mondes opens a window on hidden worlds, conducive to contemplation, wonder and artistic awakening from an early age.
Location
LA P'TITE VOÛTE
Nestled in the historic vaults of EXMURO's Aire publique, La p'tite voûte is a new mediation space for young people. In this welcoming space designed especially for young audiences, works by local artists coexist with those created by children in school workshops. A space for play, discovery and contemplation, La p'tite voûte invites young and old alike to extend their visit in a welcoming environment, designed to nurture curiosity and the pleasure of sharing art as a family. A gentle refuge at the heart of public art.
À propos des artistes
ANDRÉE-ANNE LABERGE
Andrée-Anne Laberge explores the home as a silent witness to catastrophe, whether natural or intimate. Through a practice of miniature painting, she is interested in the traces left by the world's tragedies on domestic architecture. Her works depict fragile habitats, invaded by the elements, suspended in a moment of expectation or tilt. By reducing scale, Laberge makes adversity more surmountable, almost poetic, transforming ruin into a space for contemplation. The built environment becomes memory: cracks, collapses and imbalances bear witness to a buried past. And yet, in this vulnerability, a light shines through. Nature reappears, gently, suggesting a possible renewal. Through this sensitive, tension-filled work, the artist questions our relationship with habitat, loss and resilience, turning each damaged house into a moving place imbued with hope.
Crédit photo : Claudine Leclerc
Crédit photo : Claudine LeclercLAURENT PAGANO
Laurent Pagano's work explores the tensions between function and poetry through miniature sculptures that blur scale and redefine our relationship with space. His works, built around familiar objects - branches, furniture, domestic elements - host tiny architectures: houses, staircases, walkways that seem to proliferate, parasitize and inhabit their supports. By juxtaposing nature, furniture and fragments of urbanity, Pagano creates worlds to explore, nocturnal landscapes imbued with mystery, punctuated by starry skies and dim lighting. Miniaturization here acts as a metaphor for the gaze: each sculpture becomes a theater of observation where certain elements escape the visible. The eye is invited to delve into the interstices of an artificial night where reality becomes distorted. Playing on contrasts of scale, form and color, his work evokes both the intimate and the infinite, contemplation and wandering, in a sensitive balance between architecture and the imaginary.
Photo credit: Stéphane Bourgeois
Photo credit: Stéphane Bourgeois
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