Feu de joie

Clélia Berthier
Clélia Berthier is a visual artist based in Nantes, France. Her practice centres on installations and performative sculptures involving edible materials such as bread, corn and rice. She is interested in the actions and uses surrounding food, the forms this produces, and the experiences it generates. She completed a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Fine Art at the University of Rennes 2 before joining the École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, where she obtained a DNSEP in 2019.

She joined the Ateliers Bonus in July 2021, received the City of Nantes Visual Arts Prize in 2023, was awarded a residency at the Centre d'art et de diffusion Clark in Montreal in 2024, and was invited by Bertrand Godot to hold her first solo exhibition at Le Carré Contemporary Art Centre in Chateau-Gontier in September 2025.

Rose de la Riva
Rose de la Riva is a visual artist and cultural worker born in Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang / Montreal. Through a performative and multidisciplinary practice, her work spans performance, sculpture, installation, video and drawing. Seeking to develop a deeper, more nuanced and embodied understanding of history, she explores the foundations of our collective imaginations and the role of fear, economic instability and emotional vulnerability in the formation of magical beliefs. Creating a dialogue where formal and symbolic elements intertwine, her works sit at the intersection of the material and the immaterial, reflecting the nature of objects and their materiality.

Since 2016, her projects and performances have been presented in artist-run centres (Verticale, Le Lieu, DRAC, Skol, Fonderie Darling), galleries (Art Mûr), festivals (VIVA! Art Action, Festival des Faubourgs), residencies (LA SERRE – arts vivants, Atelier de l'Observatoire de Casablanca), apartments and derelict sites. She holds a Master’s degree in Studio Arts from Concordia University (2025).

Rebecca Ramsey
Originally from British Columbia, Rebecca Ramsey is an artist currently based in Montreal. She has a BFA from Emily Carr University (2017) and an MFA from Concordia University (2024). Using ceramics, her work reflects on overlaps between the circulatory systems of bodies and architecture. In 2023, she received a fellowship from the William Blair Bruce Travel scholarship for European research to visit ancient hygienic sites in Rome. Additionally, she has attended residencies at Guldagergaard, Denmark (2017), Medalta, Medicine Hat (2018, 2026), the Shadbolt Centre for the arts, Burnaby (2018) and Est Nord Est, St. Jean Port Joli (2025).

Her work has been exhibited at Projet Casa, Artch 5th Edition, the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, the Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, DRAC (Solo, 2024), Centre d'art et de diffusion CLARK (solo, 2025) and Nicolas Robert. She runs a small ceramic studio in Montreal dedicated to sculpture and teaching, in addition to teaching part-time in the Ceramics department at Concordia University.

Myriam Simard Parent
Myriam Simard-Parent is a visual artist who specialises in wood sculpture. She was born in Montreal and currently lives there. She creates her works using traditional craft techniques, such as direct carving and woodturning, as well as a variety of assembly techniques. Her works are made from native timber and recycled wood, and demonstrate a sensitivity to the different colours and textures inherent in the material. Through a stylised and humorous approach, Simard-Parent depicts and reinterprets elements from her daily life or drawn from memories: clothing, food, animals, etc. Through her practice, wood becomes a space for reflection on our relationship with objects, living beings, popular culture and the place they occupy within our identities.

Myriam Simard-Parent holds a Master’s degree in sculpture and ceramics from Concordia University and has presented her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Canada, France and the United States. Her recent solo exhibitions include Parc à chiens at Caravansérail (Rimouski, 2024) and Mai(s) encore at Collectif Bonus (Nantes, 2024), following a creation residency. She is currently in residence for a period of eight months at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal as part of the ‘Habiter le MAC’ programme.

Manon Tourigny
Manon Tourigny was born, lives and works in Tio’tia:ke / Mooniyang / Montréal. She holds a Master’s degree in Arts Studies from UQAM and works as a curator and author. In 2024, she published the story Il était un lac au rat musqué, illustrated by the artist Fanny Mesnard (L’Écart, Rouyn-Noranda). For the past 20 years, she has been involved in the visual arts community, notably at VIVA! art action, DARE-DARE and the Centre CLARK. She is currently studying creative writing part-time at UQAM, serves on the board of directors of REPAIRE and holds the position of General and Artistic Director at Artexte.

Amber Berson
Amber is currently the Executive Director of The Visual Arts Centre in Montreal. Amber Berson is a writer, a curator, and an Art Historian. She holds a doctoral degree from Queen’s University where her SSHRC-funded research examined artist-run culture and feminist, utopian thinking. In her spare time, Berson works on knowledge equity projects, especially with the Art+Feminism Wikipedia project, where she worked in various capacities for a decade and now sits on the Board. Furthermore, she was the 2019-2020 Wikipedian-in-Residence at Concordia University Libraries. In addition to her curatorial work, Berson’s writing has been published in a variety of publications, including Canadian Art, C Magazine, Revue .dpi, Esse, Fuse Magazine, M/Other Voices, Vie des arts, The Creative Independent and the St Andrews Journal of Art History and Museum Studies.