New artist-in residence: Michaëlle Sergile

Michaëlle Sergile, Lè m sot Ayiti, 2024, single weft jacquard weaving, cotton threads, wooden stands, sound piece.
Photo Credits : Simon Belleau, Darling Foundry

Interested in the rewriting of history through weaving, Michaëlle Sergile mainly reworks texts and books on postcolonial theories.
She questions the relationship between the writings of authors such as Frantz Fanon, Mayotte Capécia and Félix Mnthali, the place that the black woman occupies in these postcolonial narratives and cultural identity as well as the notion of the "foreigner" through mediums such as photography, sculpture, moving image and sound.

The vocabulary of weaving is closely linked to questions of identity. When threads are woven together to form intersections, they are, in a way, discourses that take place. At times, they reflect a cultural melting pot, where the fabric becomes a cross between different cultures. At others, these threads reflect the intersections of intersectional thinking.

Michaëlle Sergile, (born 1995 in Chicago; lives and works in Montreal, CA) holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from UQÀM (2018) and a Master of Fine Arts from Concordia University (2023).
Her work has been exhibited at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Musée d'art de Joliette, and the Dakar Off Biennale.