April, a photographer and artist, has been known since the late 1970s for her practice,inspired by daily life, at the confluence of documentation, autobiography, and fiction. For this presentation, she has chosen not to examine her working process a posteriori, but to reveal it in its present and provisional state. She invites the audience to an uncompleted major presentation of her work in progress, in which she will bring together still and moving images, texts, voices, and sounds to be juxtaposed during a crosshatched projection. Proceeding by variations on a vast theme, the landscape that generates fictions, she will create a raw, unstable account that will act not as a definitive work but more like an instantaneous snapshot even as the work is developing. As if she were setting the table in her studio …

Raymonde April was born in Moncton, New Brunswick, and grew up in Rivière-du-Loup in eastern Quebec. She lives and works in Montreal, where she has been teaching photography at Concordia University since 1985. Her photographic work has been widely shown in Canada and abroad, including in the solo exhibitions Tout embrasser, presented at the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery of Concordia University as part of Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2001; Les Fleuves invisibles, produced by the Musée d'art de Joliette in 1997 and touring in Canada and France until 2000; and Voyage dans le monde des choses, organized by the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal in 1986. Her works are found in many private and public collections.