Carole Simard-Laflamme hails from Baie-Saint-Paul (Qu\u00e9bec). After studying architecture, she continued with museology studies at the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al. In 1989, she represented Canada at the International Textile Competitions, held in Kyoto, Japan.<\/p>\n\n
Since then, the artist has had over 60 solo exhibits and approximately 20 in Canadian and European museums: the Mus\u00e9e de Charlevoix, Mus\u00e9e des arts et traditions populaires (Mus\u00e9e POP) in Trois-Rivi\u00e8res, Madawaska Historical Museum in New Brunswick, Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul (MACBSP), Mus\u00e9e de la tapisserie de Tournai, Belgium, Mus\u00e9e de l\u2019Ardenne-Charleville-M\u00e9zi\u00e8res, Mus\u00e9e Jean-Lur\u00e7at et de la tapisserie contemporaine d\u2019Angers, Mus\u00e9e des beaux-arts de Chartres, Mus\u00e9e Andr\u00e9 Diligent (la Piscine) de Roubaix, Mus\u00e9e des tissus de Lyon, Museo del Traje de Madrid, Museu de Terrassa de Barcelone, as well as the Chapelle de la Salp\u00eatri\u00e8re de Paris.<\/p>\n\n
In addition, the artist has taken part in 80 group exhibitions in Canada and abroad. She has also produced some 30 large-scale projects that have been integrated into architectural structures. Her work is found in numerous collections in Qu\u00e9bec and Europe. She has had several grants from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Qu\u00e9bec and the Canada Council for the Arts.<\/p>\n\n
In spring 2010, she presented two monumental works titled\u00a0La robe des nations\u00a0<\/em>et\u00a0La robe cath\u00e9drale<\/em>, at the \u00c9glise Saint-Eustache in Paris, as part of UNESCO\u2019s International Festival of Cultural Diversity. In 2011, she was a guest artist at the Mus\u00e9e Gadagne de Lyon, where she was given carte blanche. In 2012, she presented\u00a0Les robes du temps autour de la flamme<\/em>\u00a0at the Cit\u00e9 internationale de la Dentelle et de La Mode de Calais, during the London Olympics. In 2013, she was a guest artist at Illiers-Combray for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Marcel Proust\u2019s\u00a0Du C\u00f4t\u00e9 de chez Swann<\/em>. In 2014, she presented\u00a0Corps de lumi\u00e8re<\/em>, a dialogue with the work of sculptor Anthony Caro, in Bourbourg, France, during the 50th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of the CCRD (Coordination Culturelle en R\u00e9gion Dunkerquoise). Then in 2017-2018, La robe des Nations\u00a0<\/em>was exhibited at the Mus\u00e9e de la civilisation de Qu\u00e9bec. And in summer 2018, l\u2019int\u00e9gration, Jardin de paroles, \u00e9toffe de la m\u00e9moire, tissu de la vie\u00a0<\/em>was presented at the Mus\u00e9e des beaux-arts, La Cohue in Vannes, France.<\/p>\n\n She served as the artistic director of the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul in 2007-2008. In 2006, she was awarded the Prix de la cr\u00e9ation artistique en Mont\u00e9r\u00e9gie by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Qu\u00e9bec. In 2019, she received a Medal of the National Assembly of Qu\u00e9bec for her 50 years of creation and her role as a cultural ambassador for Qu\u00e9bec.<\/p>\n\n ARTISTIC PROCESS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Simard-Laflamme\u2019s entire vision of the world involves analogical perception. Like all the works she creates, all aspects of humanity and the world are inextricably woven together and intertwined. Her experimentation with textile techniques has led her to reflect on the relationships between humans and their environment, and generated a desire to break down the walls between disciplines. For example, she associates nature, textiles, clothing, architectural elements and fibre with sounds. Her artworks explore the intertwined relationships between fabric, perception, intuition, identity, emotion, memory and poetry. They attest to the strength of the presence of textiles in modern-day art as an element of belonging, pride and commitment. Nathalie Guimont, FORUM, Sept. 2004. (unofficial translation)<\/p>\n\n \u201cPersonally, having lived my whole life among ropes and braids, I believe that our humanity is intertwined: our body, soul, breath, sounds, writing and all our gestures. Like a coiled wire, first with two twisted ropes, then three, and then many, fibres are woven, interwoven, disordered, merged, subdued, fragmented and coiled again. All this knowledge seems to be inscribed somewhere to reveal the cycles of Nature and our own nature to us.\u201d\u00a01<\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Carole Simard-Laflamme hails from Baie-Saint-Paul (Qu\u00e9bec). After studying architecture, she continued with museology studies at the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al. In 1989, she represented Canada at the International Textile Competitions, held in Kyoto, Japan. Since then, the artist has had over 60 solo exhibits and approximately 20 in Canadian and European museums: the Mus\u00e9e de Charlevoix, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2418,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"discipline-artistique":[44],"lambertois":[],"class_list":["post-4395","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","discipline-artistique-visual-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.saint-lambert.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/4395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.saint-lambert.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.saint-lambert.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.saint-lambert.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.saint-lambert.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"discipline-artistique","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.saint-lambert.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discipline-artistique?post=4395"},{"taxonomy":"lambertois","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.saint-lambert.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lambertois?post=4395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}