Installation by Caroline Monnet and Sébastien Aubin

Thanks to a series of handmade black and white animations, the AM collective seeks to illustrate the traditional Anishnabe story of the two enemy brothers who created our natural surroundings. Abstract lines, contemporary imagery and robust typography add up to a visual experience telling the story of two opposite beings growing closer, through their ties stronger than their differences. By creating a subtle experience of attraction and opposition, wavering between light and dark, interspersed with moments of stillness, AM leaves viewers in an ambivalent position, where spectators accept that one cannot exist without the other. 

About Caroline Monnet

Caroline Monnet (1985) is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist of Algonquin origin from the Outaouais region in Québec. She uses film, video, painting, photography and installations to communicate complex ideas around concepts of Indigenous identity and bicultural reality. Monnet has shown her work in several international galleries and festivals such as Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Toronto International Film Festival, Aesthetica (UK), Cannes Festival (talent tout court), Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art (Winnipeg), Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art Gallery et Mangere Arts Centre (NZ). Monnet is a founding member of ITWÉ, an Indigenous digital arts collective. 

About Sébastien Aubin

Sébastien Aubin holds a bachelor of arts (major in graphic design) from Université du Québec en Outaouais, and has worked for some of the most prestigious graphic design studios in Canada before embarking on a freelance career. He has designed publications for many artists, organizations and art galleries in Québec, Ontario and Manitoba, including the Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art (for the show Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years), Terrance Houle, KC Adams, la Galerie d’art de l’Université Carleton the Carlton University Art gallery, the Thunder Bay Art Gallery, and the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba. Sébastien Aubin is among the founding members of the ITWÉ collective dedicated to research, creation, production and education in the field of Indigenous digital culture. He is also part of the AM collective, which creates works of art centred on imagination, that encourage dialogue on topics connected to daily life and the emotions dwelling in it. Now living in Montréal, Sébastien Aubin is a proud member of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation in Manitoba.