vert soleil green sun

Sarah Chouinard-Poirier
Sarah Chouinard-Poirier is an artist who lives and works in Tiotia:ke/Mooning/Montreal and approaches performance, film, digital arts and writing in a transdisciplinary manner. They imagine performative scenarios—sometimes collaborative—rooted in research, stream of consciousness, speculation, intertextuality, and vernacular histories that reveal the connections between gender, class, labour, and somatic manifestations.
Their work has been featured in several artist-run centres and exhibition venues, including the Fonderie Darling, DRAC, Centre Clark, Caravansérail, VU Photo, Galerie R3, Ada X, Regart, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, OFFTA, TOPO, VIVA! Art Action, Sporobole, Le Lobe, Studio 303, as well as at several conferences, theatres, drinking establishments, institutional, self-managed and hybrid spaces in Quebec, Mexico and Poland.

Kinga Michalska
Kinga Michalska is a Polish queer filmmaker and visual artist based in Tiohtiá:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. They use mediums of photography, film, and video installation to examine shared cultural spaces such as home, kinship, land, memory, and hauntings. They are interested in the periphery of what and who makes history: amateur historians, geological processes, personal archives, oral history, queer intimacies, and speculative fiction.
Kinga Michalska holds an MFA in Photography from Concordia University (Montreal) and a BA in Cultural Studies from the University of Warsaw (Poland). Their work has been presented in numerous festivals and exhibitions around the world, including in Canada, Poland, South Korea, the UK, Switzerland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Germany. Their debut feature documentary BEDROCK (2025) premiered at the Berlinale Film Festival (Berlin, Germany) and won the Best Polish Film Award at Millennium Docs Against Gravity.

AM Trépanier
AM Trépanier works at the intersection of media arts, documentary practices and cultural mediation. Often collaborative, her research-creation activities produce interventions inspired by social movements, community archives, alternative media, popular education, social geography, and oral history. Their recent work focuses on how power is translated into built space, as well as the communities that resist it.
AM has recently taken part in residencies and presented their work in exhibitions and screenings in Canada and Europe, notably at VOX, centre de l'image contemporaine (Montreal), AXENÉO7 (Gatineau) and Eeeeh! (Nyon). Her writings have appeared in Spirale, Espace art actuel, Panorama-cinéma, Vie des arts, OEI, and Termes (Galerie Leonard et Bina Ellen). Since 2018, they have co-directed the editorial platform Cigale with Laure Bourgault, which supports experimental, documentary, and critical writing.
AM grew up in Gatineau (Algonquin Anishinaabe Nation territory) and now lives in Quebec City (Wendat and Innu Nations territory), where she is raising her child.

Credits
The vert soleil green sun exhibition, presented in autumn 2025 at AXENÉO7, was made possible thanks to the support of the centre, which supported the development of the works and their exhibition as part of its residency programme and programming. The project also received support from the DAÏMON production centre, the Conseil des arts de Montréal, the Canada Arts Council, and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.

The work Pologne-en-Québec was also developed with the support of PRIM – Centre d'artistes en postproduction (2025), and benefited from a residency at VU Photo (2022).