Festival Art Souterrain
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La cascade, 2022
Digital collage: digital images, silkscreen print and photography
Oversized surrealist landscape, La cascade is an ensemble of found images, screenshots, archived photographs and handmade four-colour prints. In this collage with contrasting materialities, the artist stages her hands, tenderly guiding the course of a waterfall through fragments of natural elements gleaned from the same wild environments that are dear to her. Representing a half-real, half-imaginary place, both nourishing and resourcing, La cascade is an invitation to reinvent our relationship with nature.
Biography
Noelle Wharton-Ayer is a multidisciplinary artist based in Quebec City. Holder of a bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from the University of York and a master’s degree in Visual Arts from Laval University, her work has been presented in solo and collective exhibitions in Canada and Europe. Noelle worked for several years as a studio manager at the artist-run centre Engramme, and since 2019, she has been working as a freelance artist and mediator for cultural mediation projects in the Quebec City area. Her latest solo project, Bedfellows, supported by an artistic creation grant from the CALQ, was presented in the spring of 2024 at VU Photo, and in the winter of 2025 at Martha Street Studio.
Special thanks to: The Méduse cooperative and the VU Photo artists center, who were in charge of the initial display of the project in 2022