CONTACT

Studio : 42, Pointe-à-Fleurant
Escuminac (Québec, Canada) G0C 1N0
marysegoudreauarchives@gmail.com

INFORMATIONS

Drawing on her experience with the world of nature, Maryse Goudreau creates universes that accompany us as we grapple with unprecedented environmental issues. Her work sometimes takes the form of books, playwriting or cinematographic narratives, and more often in visual art exhibitions that emerge from conversations, shared experiences with various scientific actors or artistic complicities. Her work is a hybrid of photography, video essays, sculpture, immersive devices, action art and social art, with several participatory projects, including Manifestation pour la mémoire des quais and Festival du tank d'Escuminac - first and last editions.

Since 2012, she has been creating an archive dedicated to the beluga whale, which she hopes to complete over twenty years. She sees it as an open work for which she assembles multiple data and creations. Although the beluga whale is emblematic for her, her current projects also touch on other subjects that also widen the circle of ecological compassion.

Her most recent exhibitions have been presented abroad and especially in Quebec: Centre d'art de Kamouraska (2025), Biosphère (Montreal, 2024), Galerie de l'UQAM (Montreal, 2024), Galerie Foreman (Sherbrooke, 2023), MOMENTA Biennale de l'image (Montreal, 2021), Venice Biennale (PHI Center Pavillon, Venice, 2019). She has published Histoire sociale du beluga and La conquête du beluga with Éditions Escuminac. She has won several awards, including the Prix Lynne-Cohen (2017) in partnership with the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. Her work can be found in many collections, including that of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Her work in the performing arts has also been featured at the Zone Théâtrale biennial (National Arts Centre, Ottawa, 2023), at Furies - a contemporary dance festival in Marsoui (2023), at the À tour de rôle theater (Carleton-sur-Mer, 2021 and 2022) and at the Festival TransAmériques - an international dance and theater festival in Montreal, (2022).

Involved on the land, she cultivates various fruit species and cares for farm animals to deepen her understanding of the world. She lives and works in Escuminac, along the Baie-des-Chaleurs where she grew up, and whose shores have been traversed by the Mi'kmaq since time immemorial.