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Boomtown Holy Void Exhibition by Marie-Raphaëlle LeBlond at Manif d’art
Complexe Méduse
The state of our built heritage expresses a deep and difficult-to-define malaise, the scars of which our regions bear. With Boomtown Holy Void, Marie-Raphaëlle LeBlond takes an oblique look at the last great colonization effort in North America: Abitibi-Témiscamingue and northern Ontario, Canada's ultimate "frontier land." Between 2020 and 2023, she traveled to dozens of abandoned sites—disused mines, ruined churches, ghost towns—scattered along the Cadillac Fault. The photographic series that emerges, influenced by her documentation of the arsenic crisis in Rouyn-Noranda in 2022, questions the genesis of our living spaces, our relationship to the territory, and the impact of exploitation mentalities on the rural landscape. The installation presented in the window extends this reflection through a play of thresholds and superpositions. It blurs the boundaries between image and matter, interior and exterior, fiction and trace. Conceived as a place of passage with disturbed landmarks, it is crossed by a persistent idea of loss. The complete series is the subject of an artist's book, Boomtown Holy Void: Épigraphie de la ville jetable, published in September 2025. Mentored by VU, this project was made possible with the support of the Première Ovation program.
Art / Gallery
Free