As part of the season launch, DRAC is organizing an open house on Saturday, September 14, 2024, from 1 to 4 p.m. to showcase our creative workshops. It's the perfect time to experiment with three artistic mediums at your own pace, free of charge, and to visit our current exhibition.  
  
Workshops are open to all: families, children, adults and seniors. The workshops will run all afternoon in a continuous format. This way, you can experiment with the three mediums offered at your own pace.

Offered workshops
- Cyanotype
- Engraving and etching
- Drawing with acrylic pencils  
 
A DRAC mediator will also be on hand to present the exhibition [En places et lieux](https://www.drac.ca/en/exhibitions/en-places-et-lieux) from artist Lucie Rocher.  

About

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1 p.m. - 4 p.m.

2024 Open house day 

In the workshop *Bleu avec le Temps*, participants will discover the cyanotype—an ancient monochromatic printing process that involves exposing a negative original to sunlight for an extended period of time. The workshop offers a deep exploration of the colour blue, its transformative properties across time, and its connection to the subject of exile.  
  
In keeping with [Berirouche Feddal](https://www.berirouchefeddal.com/)’s art practice, the workshop draws inspiration from notions of remembrance, roots, family, memory, and heritage.

Limited spaces available, registration required (starting mid-september).  
  
This project is made possible by the Entente de développement culturel de la Ville de Drummondville and the Fonds culturel de la MRC Drummond.

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6:30 p.m.

Discussion Berirouche Feddal

Event

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Berirouche Feddal

Bleu avec le Temps

As part of the workshop *Bleu avec le Temps*, emerging artist [Berirouche Feddal](https://www.berirouchefeddal.com/) will discuss his art process and practice.  
  
This discussion is presented as part of the Entente de développement culturel de la Ville de Drummondville and the Fonds culturel de la MRC Drummond.


DRAC presents a series of intimate discussions with the centre’s artists, curators, and collaborators. Lasting one hour, these discussions are intended for art lovers of all ages.  
  
Access to the discussions is free, but registration is required for some.

Discussion series

Events

Entente de développement culturel - Ville de Drummondville

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Discussion about the exhibition *Entrelacements : rencontres du regard* with artist [Mikaël Lepage](https://www.mikaellepage.com/) and curator Camille T. Caron.  
  
Advance registration is not required.

Discussions series

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Damien Ajavon & Mikaël Lepage

Entrelacements : rencontres du regard

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3:30 p.m.

Discussion Mikaël Lepage & Camille T. Caron

What is the gallerist’s role? What is the nature of the artist/gallerist relationship? Why show in commercial galleries? These are some of the questions that will be addressed by Émilie Grandmont Bérubé, Director of Art, Culture, and Library Services at the Ville de Drummondville and an expert in the art market.  
  
Advance registration is required (opening in January 2025).
  
This discussion is presented in collaboration with Culture Centre-du-Québec.

DRAC presents a series of intimate discussions with the centre’s artists, curators, and collaborators. Lasting one hour, these discussions are intended for art lovers of all ages.  
  
Access to the discussions is free but registration is required for some.

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Émilie Grandmont Bérubé

Discussion The Gallery's Role

As part of the exhibition *Le temps solidifié*, artist [Louis-Charles Dionne](https://www.louischarlesdionne.com/) will discuss his art process and practice. 
  
Registration required (available on April 2025).

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Louis-Charles Dionne

Le temps solidifié

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Discussion Louis-Charles Dionne

Following the presentation of the artist’s performance, discussion with Sarah Chouinard-Poirier about their artistic approach and professional career.  
  
Advance registration not required.

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Sarah Chouinard-Poirier

Judith

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2:30 p.m.

Discussion Sarah Chouinard-Poirier

Who is this other whose consciousness has been separated from his body, whose blood and teeth we fear? [Sarah Chouinard-Poirier](https://sarahchouinard-poirier.blogspot.com/) presents a new performance inspired by the imaginary of the zombie, where popular culture and situated knowledge meet. The artist interrogates the fear of the other, drawing on their community and activist work with people who use drugs.  
  
Through humour, research and embodiment, Chouinard-Poirier attempts to bring into friction the biopolitical theories of the undead and social hygiene justifying the regulation of substances and bodies. The artist thus invites us to observe the separation between the *human* and the *less-than-human*.  
  
This performance is presented in collaboration with the Centre d'art et de diffusion CLARK.

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Inspired by ceramic forms that facilitate everyday hygienic rituals, this installation from Rebecca Ramsey brings together a series of ceramic based sculptures that reflect on the interiority of both bodies and buildings. Here, the house (technological) and body (biological) becomes metaphors for one another. Intimately intertwined, they reveal things about each other, and act as models for understanding larger cycles of transformation and circulation in the natural world. Historically, ceramics have been used across cultures for plumbing, sinks, tubs, toilets and other sanitary objects that act as intermediaries between the waste disposal of bodies and buildings. 
  
Mostly absent, the body is implied through organic forms and reference to fixtures that imply private routines of care. The circulatory system of the house becomes an intimate extension of the dweller inside. Mirroring architectural and bodily functions, the pipe acts as a line in the space connecting discrete sculptures while referencing the hidden systems that link the gallery to the infrastructure of the city.  
  
The presented ceramic sculptures are hollow, with multiple openings that facilitate or deny containment. Both generous and defiant, these objects reflect the paradox of being separate from, but also contained by, the world. In both houses and bodies, plumbing is hidden the workhorse that facilitates movement, the pulse of a building/body which fights stagnation.


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Saturday's creative workshop

Pulp painting 

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Clay modelling

Workshops

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Rebecca Ramsey

Opening reception November 2, 2024 - 2 p.m.

At the bottom of the sink there is a black hole

Centred around self-representation and questions of identity, the exhibition creates a dialogue between the work of [Damien Ajavon](https://damienajavon.com/) (Oslo, Norway) and [Mikaël Lepage](https://www.mikaellepage.com/) (Drummondville, Quebec). Damien Ajavon is a queer, non-binary artist of African descent who explores their heritage and culture through textile art and photography. Born in Drummondville, Mikaël Lepage addresses his experience as a young gay man raised in the region through oil self-portraits.  
  
Their experiences meet in the exploration of queer identity in a heteronormative society. The artists’ works deconstruct norms traditionally associated with the female and male genders—particularly through their use of clothing—moving away from archetypal representations of gender that have long dominated the history of representation. Their bodies of work explore plural, fluid, and complex identities whose juxtaposition supports an exploration of both self and other.  
  
Emerging from a long conception and production process, the presented works invite viewers to access a less frantic sense of time. Textile art and oil painting evoke the slowness and solitude of creating in the studio. Through their chosen mediums, Ajavon and Lepage encourage visitors to take time to contemplate, question, and reflect.


 Event

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Acrylic painting on canvas

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Drawing and embroidery on paper

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Opening reception January 11, 2025 - 2 p.m.

Curator: [Pascale Beaudet](https://www.pascalebeaudet.ca/)  
  
As author and psychoanalyst Daniel Sibony writes, an artwork is an “object-time” in that it solidifies and contains time, refers to existing moments and produces new ones, i.e., “more-time.” This proposition applies particularly well to the work of [Louis-Charles Dionne](https://www.louischarlesdionne.com/), who intensifies the idea by “solidifying” everyday objects.  
  
Time cards, government forms, folders, playing cards, a snowbank: the physical manifestation of these objects is reworked in stone or bronze, materials that evoke the history of sculpture and memorials. Symbolizing long periods of time, these materials also embody aspects opposed by modernism. Amorphous and “ignoble” (as relative to “noble”) materials have become emblematic of twentieth century works.  
  
The reversal of perspective that Dionne proposes in the exhibition is not a return to the old order. Using everyday objects, he offers a reading of contemporary life based on time and the bureaucratization of artistic practice. The icons accumulating on a computer screen of folders full of grant applications and calls for work are solidified in marble and composite stone. The snowbank, a symbol of transience, finds its longevity in bronze. Marble and bronze come into a contemporary art centre to assert the endurance of the impermanent.


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Engraving

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3D modelling on a digital tablet

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Opening reception March 15, 2025 - 2 p.m.

DRAC is currently closed for the installation of the exhibition [En places et lieux](https://www.drac.ca/en/exhibitions/en-places-et-lieux) from Lucie Rocher. The opening reception will take place on Saturday, September 7, 2024, at 2 p.m.  
  
We look forward to welcoming you,  
  
The DRAC team

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DRAC is a contemporary art centre in Drummondville dedicated to the dissemination of contemporary art practices, offering a diverse annual programming of exhibitions, performances, and events.


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