Maude Arès (AXENÉO7, 2026)
Maude Arès
Residency
- PRAXIS
The PRAXIS residency unfolds across the three exhibition galleries of AXENÉO7 and within the spaces of La Filature.
The centre remains open throughout the residency during regular hours (Monday to Saturday, 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.; Wednesday, 12 p.m. to 7 p.m.). The AXENÉO7 team is present on site to welcome visitors, engage in conversation, and provide context for the work in progress. Access to the exhibition spaces will evolve over the course of the residency, in line with the project’s development and the artist’s presence.
Activities :
Rencontre #1 — January 30
Performances — February T.B.A.
Performances — March 27 and 28
Closing event — March 27
Further details will be shared progressively.
Free admission
Free parking
To inaugurate PRAXIS, AXENÉO7 is pleased to welcome artist Maude Arès, whose practice places the cycles of materials and the relationships formed between bodies, matter, and spaces at its core. Her approach resonates naturally with the spirit of this new program, conceived as a framework for experimentation and shared presence.
Maude Arès’s practice investigates the sensitive relationships between a wide range of found materials. Since 2015, she has been developing an archive of debris, driven by an interest in their trajectories and in the histories of impact, transformation, and wear—real or imagined, past or future—inscribed within their fragmented materiality. Through an intimate, long-term dialogue with these materials, she constructs fragmented universes in which each element—matter, gesture, arrangement, movement—contributes to the development of precarious installations. Her work unfolds over time through successive states, revealing the adjustments, tensions, and balances that shape the creative process.
From January to March, Maude inhabits the exhibition spaces as a moving workshop. The project unfolds through interconnected fragments, with each gallery becoming a situation rather than a finished work. One of the spaces is developed in collaboration with Erin Hill and Simon Labbé. Together, they create a performative installation that foregrounds the elemental richness of narratives, vitalities, and mobilities inspired by a diversity of material fragments.
Beginning in March, this research will take the form of an exhibition, within which the performance La pomme par laquelle je bois will be presented. Developed collaboratively, the performance acts as both an activation and an extension of the universe established throughout the residency.
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PRAXIS is a residency program that brings together research, creation, mediation, and dissemination within the exhibition spaces of AXENÉO7. Designed for situated and process-based practices, PRAXIS invites an artist or collective to inhabit these spaces as a workshop, where the work develops in situ and in full view, over time, in dialogue with the centre, its territory, and the communities that move through it. Through moments of sharing and transmission, the public is invited to closely follow the creative process and, at times, take part in it.
Acknowledgements
Maude Arès wishes to thank Simon Labbé and Erin Hill, with whom this project developed through a close and trusting collaboration, shaped by friendship, generosity, and a shared commitment to La pomme par laquelle je bois. She also thanks Guillaume Houët and Catherine Fournier-Poirier for their support in the development of the lighting design.
She would like to acknowledge the contributions of Fanny Brossard-Charbonneau, Isabelle Darveau, Geneviève Philippon, Élise Anne LaPlante, and Dominique Rivard for the precision of their words, the quality of moving images, and the spirit of collaboration that enriched the creative process. She also thanks Daniel Pelchat, Rebecca Rehder, and Frédérique Roy for their sensitivity and attentive presence throughout the project.
She thanks the AXENÉO7 team and the Recto-Verso residencies for their generous welcome and commitment to this coproduction, which enabled the project to unfold and take shape.
Finally, she wishes to thank the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts, Atelierhaus Salzamt (Austria), and KUNSTSAMMLUNG(Austria) for their support. This project received financial support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec through the Explore / Create and Production programs, as well as support from AXENÉO7, which made possible new ways of sharing artistic practice with the public.
Biographies
Maude Arès
Maude Arès is an interdisciplinary artist. Working primarily through installation, her practice extends into sculpture, performance, scenography, and drawing. Her work explores sensitive relationships between found materials, creating vulnerable environments that invite close attention to the subtleties of tangible worlds. She reflects on the performative qualities of materials and the gestures that animate them, seeking to reveal visible and invisible interdependencies between humans and non-humans. Her projects have been presented in artist-run centres, theatres, and various events in Canada and Colombia.
Erin Hill
Erin Hill is a dance artist, writer, and birth support practitioner. Hill’s work is rooted in daily practice, building relations with ecological protagonists such as the sun (Sunrise Commitment, 2018) and the weather (Deep Gazing, ongoing). Erin is one half of The Sisters of the Celestial Order of Nephology, co-created with lifelong collaborator Nina Vroemen under the name Horizon Factory. More recently, Erin’s practice is engaged by the nuances of beyond verbal communication in interspecies relationships, for which she is pursuing a PhD in Humanities at Concordia University. As a dramaturg and writer, Hill has worked with dance artists Sebastian Kann, Lucy M. May, Charlie Prince, Camille Lacelle-Wilsey, among others. Erin holds a Master’s degree from DAS Theatre (formerly DasArts) in Amsterdam and makes home as a settler in Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang / Montreal.
Simon Labbé
Simon Labbé develops a hybrid practice centred on the gesture of listening, articulated through composition for performance, installation, writing, recording, and interventions in public space. He is particularly interested in the situated nature of listening and the spaces it unfolds. His work investigates and activates environments and the trajectories that compose them through field recordings, scores/choreographies, and spatial dispositifs.
His work has been presented locally and internationally in Mexico (Cubo), Berlin (Sacred Realism), Brussels (Q-O2), Amsterdam (DNK Days), Klagenfurt (Lakeside), and Boston (Co-incidence). He has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec on several occasions and has participated in numerous residencies in Canada and abroad. Simon Labbé lives and works in Montreal.
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