Marika Drolet-Ferguson
Photographer
Marika Drolet-Ferguson is from the Acadian Peninsula in Eastern Canada. She is interested in the relation between nature and imagination. Photography is for her a practice of observation: it is through this medium that she explores how the land that surrounds us also comes to inhabit us. The slowness of the analog process gives her the freedom to discover what lies beneath the surface of things. By cultivating a sensitive and attentive look, her researches aim to develop a sense of belonging and offer an experience of connection with nature.
Marika’s photography work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions, including at Galerie Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen, Moncton, Galerie Bernard-Jean, Caraquet, The Factory, Iceland, and in the form of public artworks, Sheldrake, 2017 and Fogo, 2018. She has been artist-in-residence for ARNA in Sweden, 2014, 2016, Listhùs in Iceland, 2015, 2019, and Vu Photo in Quebec City, 2018. In collaboration with Mathieu Boucher, she took part of the Moncton Art-Nature Symposium, 2016, and the Sudbury Alternative Art Fair, 2018.
She is a lecturer in photography at the Université de Moncton from 2016 to 2018, and in drawing at the School of Architecture of Université Laval in 2018. Marika studied visual arts before completing studies in architecture at Université Laval, Quebec, and at the University of Genoa in Italy. She pursues her research in visual arts in conjunction with her architectural practice.
Marika Drolet-Ferguson
Photographer
Marika Drolet-Ferguson is from the Acadian Peninsula in Eastern Canada. She is interested in the relation between nature and imagination. Photography is for her a practice of observation: it is through this medium that she explores how the land that surrounds us also comes to inhabit us. The slowness of the analog process gives her the freedom to discover what lies beneath the surface of things. By cultivating a sensitive and attentive look, her researches aim to develop a sense of belonging and offer an experience of connection with nature.
Marika’s photography work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions, including at Galerie Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen, Moncton, Galerie Bernard-Jean, Caraquet, The Factory, Iceland, and in the form of public artworks, Sheldrake, 2017 and Fogo, 2018. She has been artist-in-residence for ARNA in Sweden, 2014, 2016, Listhùs in Iceland, 2015, 2019, and Vu Photo in Quebec City, 2018. In collaboration with Mathieu Boucher, she took part of the Moncton Art-Nature Symposium, 2016, and the Sudbury Alternative Art Fair, 2018.
She is a lecturer in photography at the Université de Moncton from 2016 to 2018, and in drawing at the School of Architecture of Université Laval in 2018. Marika studied visual arts before completing studies in architecture at Université Laval, Quebec, and at the University of Genoa in Italy. She pursues her research in visual arts in conjunction with her architectural practice.
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María Magdalena Campos-Pons: BeholdSep 15, 2023 – Jan 14, 2024María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold is a monographic exhibition of a visionary voice in photography, immersive installation, painting, and performance. Spanning nearly four decades of visually engaging artworks, the exhibition explores Campos-Pons’s prescient and sensorial work – transporting viewers across geographies, mediums, and spiritual practices. (more…)
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Melike Kara: Emine’s GardenJul 8 – Sep 24, 2023Melike Kara (*1985, lives and works in Cologne) develops her painterly work alongside the writing of poetry and the production of sculptures, videos and other media. The experimental use of surfaces is a characteristic of her paintings, (more…)
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The Dora Maar House / ResidencyDeadline Oct 16, 2023Nancy B Negley Artists Residency Program based at The Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, France, offers residencies of one to two months to mid-career arts and humanities professionals to focus on their areas of expertise. (more…)
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Matthias Brunner: Magnificent Obsessions Saved My LifePublicationBiographies can be as various as human lives. And yet Magnificent Obsessions Saved My Life really is an outlier, a (auto)biography of a different kind that retraces milestones and turning points in the life of a post-war artist from a dysfunctional family, set against the backdrop of his ’68 generation’s experiences (more…)
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Gypsyism, Balkanism – Through a Glass, DarklyMay 16 – Nov 30, 2023The same degree and intensity of generalization, reductionism, and stereotyping apply to imagining the Balkans and the Roma. Maria Todorova’s concept of Balkanism provides a sound theoretical framework to explore the deployment of Balkanist stereotypes against Roma in Eastern Europe and Western Balkans. (more…)
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Before TomorrowJun 22 – Oct 8, 2023To celebrate thirty years of Astrup Fearnley Museet, the museum will present an extensive exhibition featuring works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection. Alongside recent acquisitions from the past three years, the exhibition will include both iconic and lesser-known works, (more…)
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Palermo Mon AmourApr 17 – Sep 24, 2023Curated by Valentina Greco, the exhibition tells the story of Palermo through images from the 1950s to 1992. A journey that reveals an image-filled Palermo through the research and insights of Enzo Sellerio, Letizia Battaglia, Franco Zecchin, Fabio Sgroi and Lia Pasqualino. (more…)
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Christopher Kulendran Thomas / For RealJun 10 – Oct 10, 2023‘How can you know the reality of a conflict when the winners get to write its history?’ Kunsthalle Zürich presents Christopher Kulendran Thomas: For Real, an exhibition across both floors of the institution by the British-Tamil artist, in collaboration with Annika Kuhlmann (more…)
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Rinus Van de Velde: A Life in A DayAug 31 – Oct 7, 2023Tim Van Laere Gallery presents A Life in A Day, Rinus Van de Velde’s seventh solo exhibition at the gallery. In this exhibition, the artist not only presents new drawings in oil pastel, colored pencil, and charcoal but also premieres his third film, A Life in A Day, along with a selection of sculptures featured in the film. (more…)
