Émilie Régnier
This spring, Arsenal Contemporary Art Montreal is pleased to welcome Émilie Régnier for a residency. The Canadian artist is in preparation for an exhibition at the Blouin Division gallery in early 2023.
Émilie Régnier addresses issues of racial and cultural representation within a social hierarchy, and the intersection of race and genetics in her work. She reiterates her own body, imprinting herself on various support: cotton, linen, silk, quilts, bogolans from Mali, indigo from Guinea, military fabrics, and so on. These textiles are filled with the stories of her ancestors spanning in between Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and Canada. The print of her body does not reveal her identity, but highlights undoubtedly her gender and racial affiliation. These images could represent many thousands of black women. Her body in this work is merely the symbol of a much larger group. And this group is the most overlooked one in America.