Caroline Monnet

Caroline Monnet is an Algonquin and French contemporary artist and filmmaker known for her work in sculpture, installation and film.

Background

Monnet is a multi-disciplinary contemporary artist and filmmaker based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She grew up between the Celtic coasts of France in Douarnenez and the Algonquin territory of Outaouais, Québec, and much of her work explores her Algonquin (Quebec) and French (France) dual heritage.[1][2] Caroline Monnet is primarily a self-taught artist.[3]

Education

Monnet has B.A in communications and sociology from the University of Ottawa and has studied at the University of Granada in Spain. She is an alumnus of the Berlinale Talent Campus and TIFF Talent Lab 2016.[4]

Career

Monnet made her film debut in 2009 with "Ikwé" which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. In 2015 Monnet released a short film named Mobilize which uses old footage from the National Film Board of Canada archives, set to a score by Tanya Tagaq;[5][6] She was nominated for a Canadian Screen Awards for Best Short Drama for Roberta (2014) and Best Short Documentary for Tshiuetin (2016).[7][8] She won a Golden Sheaf Award at the Yorkton Film Festival for Best experimental film for Mobilize.[9] Her first feature film entitled Bootlegger produced by Microclimat Films was selected for both CineMart and Berlinale Co-Production Market 2016.[10][11] She was the first Canadian filmmaker selected for the 33rd session of the prestigious Cannes Film Festival's Cinéfondation residency in Paris (3 October 2016 – 15 February 2017).[12] Monnet is also a founding member of the Aboriginal digital arts collective ITWÉ.[13] 

Her works have been exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris) and Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), as part of Rencontres Internationales (Paris/Berlin/Madrid), Axenéo7, Plug In ICA, Arsenal Montréal, Arsenal Contemporary NY, Walter Phillips Gallery, Winnipeg Art Gallery, McCord Museum, and Museum of Contemporary Art (Montréal) among others.[14]

In 2014, she participated in the television show Les Contemporain which screened on ARTV and directed by Bernar Hébert. She was one of 6 emerging artists to undertake a 7 weeks residency at ARSENAL contemporary art centre combined with an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Montréal. From 2014 to 2016, she kept involved with Arsenal as artist in residence. In 2016 she assisted the American artist Mark Jenkins which led to a collaboration included in Monnet's solo exhibition at Axenéo7 titled "In the Shadow of the Obvious".

Style

Monnet's work in film, painting and sculpture deals with complex ideas around Indigenous identity and bicultural living through the examination of cultural histories.[15] She is interested in themes of identity, representation, and modernity.[3] Monnet has made a signature for working with industrial materials, combining the vocabulary of popular and traditional visual culture with the tropes of modernist abstraction to create unique hybrid forms.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Martha Street Studio | Caroline Monnet". printmakers.mb.ca. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  2. ↑ "Six emerging Aboriginal artists in Canada who are inspiring change". National Post. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  3. 1 2 3 "A Brief Conversation with Caroline Monnet - BlackFlash Magazine". BlackFlash Magazine. 2017-02-06. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  4. ↑ Kay, Jeremy (3 August 2016). "Toronto film festival unveils Canadian selections". Screen Daily. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  5. ↑ Canada, National Film Board of, Mobilize, retrieved 2016-11-19
  6. ↑ "Indigenous people 'kicking ass on-screen' in new film". CBC News. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
  7. ↑ "Roberta - Festival Scope: Festivals on Demand for Film Professionals World Wide". pro.festivalscope.com. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  8. ↑ "Indigenous talent among 2017 Canadian Screen Award nominees". CBC News. 17 January 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  9. ↑ "NFB/distribution - National Film Board of Canada". www.nfb.ca. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  10. ↑ "CineMart completes line-up for 33rd edition". IFFR. 2015-12-10. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  11. ↑ "Supple Magazine » Berlinale Co-Production Market Matches 36 New Feature Film Projects with International Co-Production Partners". www.supplemagazine.org. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  12. ↑ "33rd Session". Cinéfondation: Festival de Cannes. Retrieved 11 Mar 2017.
  13. ↑ Dam, Freja. "TIFF 2015 Women Directors: Meet Caroline Monnet – 'Mobilize' | IndieWire". www.indiewire.com. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  14. ↑ "AMIK(WAA) by Caroline Monnet". Video Pool Media Arts Centre. 2014-08-22. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  15. ↑ Dam, Freja. "TIFF 2015 Women Directors: Meet Caroline Monnet – 'Mobilize' | IndieWire". www.indiewire.com. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
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