Joëlle Morosoli

Holder of a doctorate from the University of Paris 8 in Aesthetics, Science and Technology of the Arts, Joëlle Morosoli has been creating moving sculptures for around forty years. During her career, she has held more than thirty solo exhibitions and, among the important group exhibitions, we can mention that of the Centre Georges-Pompidou. In public art, she has created more than thirty works including one at the Palais des Congrès in Hull and one at the Centre Mère-Enfant in Quebec.

Co-founder of the magazine Espace Art Actuel, she served as its assistant editor for about ten years. A writer and poet, she won the second Robert-Cliche Prize in 1986 for her novel Le Sablier de l’angoisse. In 1988, she published a fictional work entitled Le Ressac des ombres with Éditions l’Hexagone, as well as a collection of poetry, Traînée rouge dans le soleil de lait, published in 1984, with Éditions Naaman. She is also the author of a major essay published in 2007 by Éditions d’art Le Sabord entitled L’Installation en mouvement – ​​une esthétique de la violence.

Joëlle Morosoli was subsequently the department coordinator of the visual arts and art history program at Cégep de Saint-Laurent from 2007 to 2014. She currently teaches art there.