Mathieu Deschênes

+++Artist of the month / April 2026+++


Mathieu Deschênes is a Montreal-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans visual arts and experimental music. Holding a Master's degree in Studio Art (Print Media) from Concordia University, he develops a body of work rooted in the exploration of painting, print media, performance, and collaborative forms.

Actively involved in Quebec's cultural scene, he serves as Vice-President of the Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels du Québec (RAAV), where he contributes to discussions on artistic governance and various contemporary issues.

Founder of several initiatives—including Galerie Deschênes, Espace des Mêmes, the Club Découverte label, and École Jean-Léon Deschênes—he designs spaces for creation, dissemination, and encounters for artists.

+++Artist of the month / April 2026+++


Mathieu Deschênes is a Montreal-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans visual arts and experimental music. Holding a Master's degree in Studio Art (Print Media) from Concordia University, he develops a body of work rooted in the exploration of painting, print media, performance, and collaborative forms.

Actively involved in Quebec's cultural scene, he serves as Vice-President of the Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels du Québec (RAAV), where he contributes to discussions on artistic governance and various contemporary issues.

Founder of several initiatives—including Galerie Deschênes, Espace des Mêmes, the Club Découverte label, and École Jean-Léon Deschênes—he designs spaces for creation, dissemination, and encounters for artists. His work has been presented in various institutional and alternative settings, including the Maison culturelle Armand-Vaillancourt, as well as at major events such as MUTEK.

In parallel, he develops an active musical practice within several projects, including MOAB, which leads him to perform on local stages. His approach is distinguished by a transdisciplinary perspective where creation, curating and community engagement intersect.
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Mathieu Deschênes
Eduardo Motato Sierra

+++Artist of the month / January 2026+++


Eduardo Motato Sierra (Cali, 1983) holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Departmental Institute of Fine Arts in Cali. His practice focuses primarily on painting and includes research-creation processes, mural projects, and pedagogical work. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Cali, Bogotá, and internationally, including in Mexico. He was a featured artist in the Galería Gris New Collectors catalog during ArtBo Weekend 2022.

His work has been exhibited in both institutional and independent spaces and has received recognition,

+++Artist of the month / January 2026+++


Eduardo Motato Sierra (Cali, 1983) holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Departmental Institute of Fine Arts in Cali. His practice focuses primarily on painting and includes research-creation processes, mural projects, and pedagogical work. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Cali, Bogotá, and internationally, including in Mexico. He was a featured artist in the Galería Gris New Collectors catalog during ArtBo Weekend 2022.

His work has been exhibited in both institutional and independent spaces and has received recognition, such as an honorable mention for his undergraduate thesis, "Pictorial Bodies." As a member of the ARBUSTA collective – artistic practices – he has received recognition from the Secretary of Culture for his exhibitions of visual and plastic arts. He has also gained experience curating exhibitions at institutions such as the La Tertulia Museum, as well as participating in cultural and community projects in the city of Cali.

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His work establishes itself as a laboratory of urban memory and reformulates painting not as an aspiration to the eternal or the classical, but as a device for rescue. Motato roams the city, collecting fragments of the urban environment—the ephemeral, the discarded, that which is consumed and forgotten—to extract its pictorial potential.

The exhibition is structured around two conceptual axes that explore the transformation of matter: "1055 Lightweight Base for More Copies" is a series that uses a hybrid support of found objects, representing pipes made from soda bottle caps, straws, rubber, and aluminum. It is an act of revival, giving new life to the discarded and questioning the precarious economies that operate outside of formal logic. In her work "Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear," Motato reclaims the traces of rampant consumerism, elevating the residue of ballots to the status of primary pictorial material.

Motato avoids explicit denunciation. Her realism, combined with an unexpected abstraction, opens an ethical debate by placing marginalized objects at the center of the composition. The work moves between empathy and distance, challenging the viewer to confront their individual morality in the face of marginality. Her painting is an active contemplation, forcing us to look and redeem what society, in its haste, has closed off.
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Eduardo Motato Sierra
Asma Ahsan Khan

+++Artist of the month / December 2025+++


Asma Ahsan Khan is a Pakistani-Canadian interdisciplinary artist and researcher whose work bridges fine arts, cosmology, and systems thinking. Based in Montréal, Khan creates drawings, mixed-media works, and performative research rooted in over a decade of independent study in theoretical physics, microscopy, and the aesthetics of complex systems. Her practice foregrounds mark-making as a method of inquiry, using visual experimentation to explore non-linear time, emergent behaviour, and the invisible architecture of the systems of nature.

For the past ten years, Khan has developed a unique artistic vocabulary through microscopic observation, studying anomalies, materials, and temporal patterns as pathways

+++Artist of the month / December 2025+++


Asma Ahsan Khan is a Pakistani-Canadian interdisciplinary artist and researcher whose work bridges fine arts, cosmology, and systems thinking. Based in Montréal, Khan creates drawings, mixed-media works, and performative research rooted in over a decade of independent study in theoretical physics, microscopy, and the aesthetics of complex systems. Her practice foregrounds mark-making as a method of inquiry, using visual experimentation to explore non-linear time, emergent behaviour, and the invisible architecture of the systems of nature.

For the past ten years, Khan has developed a unique artistic vocabulary through microscopic observation, studying anomalies, materials, and temporal patterns as pathways into understanding how systems evolve. This research forms the foundation of long-term projects such as Micro-Frequencies for Prayer and A Bird’s Eye View of Hot and Cold Secrets, her 2024 solo exhibition at Gesù in Montréal. Her current work investigates wormholes, black holes, entanglement, and post-human landscapes through drawing and science-informed visualization.

Khan is the founder of ILM Collective, a transdisciplinary platform where artists, scientists, composers, and systems thinkers engage in dialogue to generate new artworks and new ways of sensing complexity. Through ILM, Khan has facilitated and documented exchanges with physicists, musicians, ecologists, and behavioural scientists. Her work has been exhibited internationally in Canada, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom, with presentations and workshops hosted by the National Theatre School, Wolf Willow Institute, The Imaginarium, Aga Khan University Hospital, and Concordia University. She has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec (Vivacité Grant).

Khan’s interdisciplinary engagements include collaborations ecology, medical environments, and community-based art. Her research interests encompass cosmology, microscopy, non-linear clocks, cognitive mapping, Sufi epistemologies, and interfaith ritual. Across these domains, Khan approaches art as a form of inquiry—an embodied practice that makes visible the hidden patterns and subtle forces shaping our interconnected worlds.
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Asma Ahsan Khan
Emilie O’Brien

+++Artist of the month / November 2025+++


Emilie O’Brien is an interdisciplinary artist-researcher whose creative practice bridges drawing, hand-embroidery, writing and photographic processes with studies in plant medicine and health. Grounded in the belief that embodiment and relationship are essential to mutual thriving, her work critically examines the fascia of connectivity between individual, community, and planetary wellness. Through immersive, process-based techniques, Emilie explores the relationship between somatic experience, ecology, and systems of care.
Emilie O’Brien
Louise Campion

+++Artist of the month / October 2025+++


Louise Campion is a French artist and writer, based between Montreal (Tiohtià:ke - Mooniyang; Canada), Glasgow (Scotland, UK), and Paris (France). She has presented work internationally in group and semi-solo exhibitions, in galleries such as The Untitled Space in NYC (USA), The Glue Factory in Glasgow (UK) and ICAT at HFBK Hamburg (Germany). Louise was part of notable art initiatives such as ARTCH Montreal, the Art Souterrain Festival, the International Festival of Films on Art, amongst others. She holds a BFA in Studio Art from Concordia University (with distinction) and just completed her MFA from the Glasgow School of Art (with distinction), for which she was awarded The Ranald and Jennifer May Postgraduate Painting Scholarship. She maintains a studio practice through grants and residencies, that she pairs with researched jobs, stimulating projects,

+++Artist of the month / October 2025+++


Louise Campion is a French artist and writer, based between Montreal (Tiohtià:ke - Mooniyang; Canada), Glasgow (Scotland, UK), and Paris (France). She has presented work internationally in group and semi-solo exhibitions, in galleries such as The Untitled Space in NYC (USA), The Glue Factory in Glasgow (UK) and ICAT at HFBK Hamburg (Germany). Louise was part of notable art initiatives such as ARTCH Montreal, the Art Souterrain Festival, the International Festival of Films on Art, amongst others. She holds a BFA in Studio Art from Concordia University (with distinction) and just completed her MFA from the Glasgow School of Art (with distinction), for which she was awarded The Ranald and Jennifer May Postgraduate Painting Scholarship. She maintains a studio practice through grants and residencies, that she pairs with researched jobs, stimulating projects, curation and writing. For instance, Louise recently organized exhibitions at the Pipe Factory and the New Glasgow Society (Glasgow), and published essays for ISSAY magazine (Calgary) and Céline Bureau (Montreal). She is currently working as Head of Financing and Philanthropy at the non-profit organization Fais-moi l'art and in the administrative department of the Visual Arts Centre (Montreal), while developing a series of new oil paintings for the renown fashion house Hermès (Paris).
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Louise Campion
Keenan Poloncsak

+++Artist of the month / September 2025+++


Keenan Poloncsak is a multidisciplinary artist specializing in illustration and traditional bookbinding. He is especially known for his graphic novels, comics and children's books which he writes, illustrates, self-publishes and often binds himself.
Keenan Poloncsak
Daniela Zapata

+++Artist of the month / August 2025+++


A graduate in Spanish Language (UdeA), she is a photographer and passionate swimmer. She has yet to discover how to reconcile literature and photography in her daily life, but she embodies a constant search for ecphrasis, capturing the light that filters into her life and giving voice to her sensitivity. (Colombia, 1996).
Daniela Zapata
Peter Skahan

+++Artist of the month / July 2025+++


Peter Skahan is a visual artist whose principal mediums are graphite and watercolor. He graduated from Concordia University in 1981 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Graphic Design.

Common everyday objects and the interplay of light and shadow are a constant source of inspiration. One day he hopes to understand just what it is that he is trying to communicate to the world.

As a sideline he researches the phenomena that pets and their owners come to resemble each other over time.
Peter Skahan
Jean-Benoît Duval

+++Artist of the month / June 2025+++


Jean-Benoît Duval's visual arts practice is rooted in the wonder he has cultivated since childhood in entomology, the study of insects. Discovering the richness and subtleties of this world—at times robotic and articulate in appearance, at others graceful and harmonious—has influenced his graphic reflections in various media ever since.

Jean-Benoît was also a member of the art collective Les Mêmes-Cacaïstes, the improvised music group MOAB, and was a founding member of the pop-up gallery L’Espace des Mêmes.
Jean-Benoît Duval
Zéa Dee Poku

+++Artist of the month / May 2025+++


Zéa Dee Poku is an artist (more than three little dots).....she couldn't describe her art herself. A little bit of everything (I'm talking about myself as another person, I'm trying to create characters, universes, stories). I want to make you feel a little uncomfortable, heart.
Zéa Dee Poku
Lotte Berstaff

+++Artist of the month / April 2025+++


I love paname
I love paris
I love montreal
I love humildes
I love Maniwaki
I love cachoeira
I love sao paulo
I love teheran
I love colombie-britannique
I love panama
I love croatie
I love suède
I love madrid
I love haïti

Il sentit de lui une odeur connue mais oubliée depuis.

2006-
Lotte Berstaff
Frédéric Dubois

+++Artist of the month / March 2025+++


Frédéric Dubois is a Montreal multidisciplinary artist from Terrebonne interested in how individuals perceive their environment and how to rethink our vision of space. He uses video games as a visual language, exploring phenomena that invite a dialogue between reality and virtual experiences.
Frédéric Dubois
Victoria Arsenault

+++Artist of the month / February 2025+++


Je me regarde
quand elle m'éblouit la lune
juste pour un instant
chanceuse
je sais
savoir
quelle n’est la que pour un instant
à cette instant
Ca me donne quand même envie d’ouvrir ma gorge qui me fait toujours mal
De l’ouvrir grande ouverte, pour

+++Artist of the month / February 2025+++


Je me regarde
quand elle m'éblouit la lune
juste pour un instant
chanceuse
je sais
savoir
quelle n’est la que pour un instant
à cette instant
Ca me donne quand même envie d’ouvrir ma gorge qui me fait toujours mal
De l’ouvrir grande ouverte, pour vous montrer ma deuxième rangée d’amygdales enflé
toujours enflé, on l’échappe pas
même arrachés les couilles de la gorge, ils restent
Comme mauvaises herbes
acceptance

J’écris toujours sur le bord de la marche
en dehors de la marge
j’aime mieux écrire dans le milieu
remplie de coquille d’oeuf
C'EST PARTIE JE RIS À GORGE DÉPLOYÉE, UNE GORGE QUI SUINTE, UNE GORGE QUI FAIT MAL, voyez vous comme tout est drôle dans ce coin de pays.
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Victoria Arsenault
Federico Cuartas Aristizábal AKA madeinlan©he

+++Curator Centfeux June-Oct. 2025+++


+++Artiste du mois / January 2025+++


+++Founding Member+++


I was born in Colombia in the year 1987, part of my childhood was spent in Seoul (South Korea) and the later part back in South America. I graduated from the Université de Montreal in 2010 with a degree in filmmaking and I have a Master’s in Visual and Fine Arts from La Universidad Nacional de Colombia. I’m currently living in Montréal working on my second Masters, in English Literature. I’ve painted (almost) all my life and I haven’t gone a day without drawing since September 23 2013. I’ll be buried with a book or

+++Curator Centfeux June-Oct. 2025+++


+++Artiste du mois / January 2025+++


+++Founding Member+++


I was born in Colombia in the year 1987, part of my childhood was spent in Seoul (South Korea) and the later part back in South America. I graduated from the Université de Montreal in 2010 with a degree in filmmaking and I have a Master’s in Visual and Fine Arts from La Universidad Nacional de Colombia. I’m currently living in Montréal working on my second Masters, in English Literature. I’ve painted (almost) all my life and I haven’t gone a day without drawing since September 23 2013. I’ll be buried with a book or two next to me. Worry not.

My first contact with Art came through books, more specifically, with the bits of encyclopedia that came with the Sunday supplement of the newspaper. These glossy images were for me a constant source of joy and amazement. They were my first form of external comfort, the first baby steps towards an affective fetishism in books and deliciously printed images or illustrations. My first crush as a toddler was the Infanta Margarita – ‘nuff said.

So by the time it was my turn in life to decide what career to choose, there was no doubt in my mind about what I wanted to do, the only hitch-glitch remaining was: how? How does one go about doing Art? The question still haunts me. But now, with a good ten years of working in arts, I’m happy to say I don’t have an answer. Which is just another way of saying: it’s only the work that matters, the time invested, the feeling involved, and ultimately, the daily discipline…
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Federico Cuartas Aristizábal AKA madeinlan©he
Tomas Dessureault

+++Curator Centfeux Feb.-May 2025+++


+++Artist of the month / December 2024+++


Tomas Dessureault (born in 2000) is an artist from Abitibi-Témiscamingue with a predilection for painting.

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Tomas Dessureault
Biblioteca Popular Bruce Lee

+++Artist of the month / November 2024+++


Biblioteca Popular Bruce Lee is an artisanal press created by Erasmo Pantoja and Mónica Mejía in Cali, Colombia. This organism encourages the construction of an uncertain and dispersed library through handmade publications in small, numbered print runs, functioning as a collaborative crucible for writings, exhumations, and translations.
Biblioteca Popular Bruce Lee
Dayana Camacho

+++Curator Centfeux Jan.-Feb. 2026+++


+++Artist of the month / September 2024+++


Dayana Camacho Rodríguez (Cali, 1995) is a teacher of fine arts who obtained her degree at the Departmental Institute of Fine Arts of Cali, and currently resides in this same city. As a member of the Monómero Collective, Línea Roja Producciones and Sésamo Colectiva, she has experience in artistic education, execution of research-creation projects and project management. In addition, she has received various local and national awards, including the Arte cámara Award 2019, the Pacific Regional Hall 2020, an Honorable Mention from the Ministry of Culture 2019, a Creation Scholarship from the Ministry of Culture 2020, the Cali Young Art Hall Award 2018 and a Creation Scholarship from the Ministry of Culture 2016, among others. She has also participated in various individual

+++Curator Centfeux Jan.-Feb. 2026+++


+++Artist of the month / September 2024+++


Dayana Camacho Rodríguez (Cali, 1995) is a teacher of fine arts who obtained her degree at the Departmental Institute of Fine Arts of Cali, and currently resides in this same city. As a member of the Monómero Collective, Línea Roja Producciones and Sésamo Colectiva, she has experience in artistic education, execution of research-creation projects and project management. In addition, she has received various local and national awards, including the Arte cámara Award 2019, the Pacific Regional Hall 2020, an Honorable Mention from the Ministry of Culture 2019, a Creation Scholarship from the Ministry of Culture 2020, the Cali Young Art Hall Award 2018 and a Creation Scholarship from the Ministry of Culture 2016, among others. She has also participated in various individual and collective exhibitions in spaces such as the Tertulia Museum, the Rayo Museum, the Jenny Vilá Gallery, the Mor Charpentier Gallery, the Cali Country Club, Lugar a Dudas, Sin espacio, the ARTBO Chapinero Rooms, and Casa Obeso Mejía, among others.
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Dayana Camacho
Vanessa Yanow

+++Artist of the month / August 2024+++


Vanessa Yanow is a queer artist from Tiohià:ke / Montreal. She works across diverse media, including flame worked glass, digital embroidery, collage, artifacts, photography, drawing, textiles and found objects. Yanow enriches her deeply imaginative and tactile artmaking practice with research whose diversity includes issues of female and queer representation in the history of art and craft, queer sexualities and gender expressions, microbiology, climate change, parasitology, and community care. Vanessa’s studio is at The Long Haul – A 10,000 square foot visual art workspace and gallery in Parc Extension that she co-founded in 2001. Since co-founding The Long Haul, she has mentored emerging artists, coordinated the collective, advocated for their group, curated exhibitions, all while producing several large bodies of work that have been exhibited Nationally and Internationally. Yanow’s sculptures are part

+++Artist of the month / August 2024+++


Vanessa Yanow is a queer artist from Tiohià:ke / Montreal. She works across diverse media, including flame worked glass, digital embroidery, collage, artifacts, photography, drawing, textiles and found objects. Yanow enriches her deeply imaginative and tactile artmaking practice with research whose diversity includes issues of female and queer representation in the history of art and craft, queer sexualities and gender expressions, microbiology, climate change, parasitology, and community care. Vanessa’s studio is at The Long Haul – A 10,000 square foot visual art workspace and gallery in Parc Extension that she co-founded in 2001. Since co-founding The Long Haul, she has mentored emerging artists, coordinated the collective, advocated for their group, curated exhibitions, all while producing several large bodies of work that have been exhibited Nationally and Internationally. Yanow’s sculptures are part of the city of Montreal’s permanent collection, the MUMAQ, and Le Musée National des Beaux Arts in Québec City.
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Vanessa Yanow
Emmanuel Zúñiga

+++Artist of the month / June 2024+++


Emmanuel Zúñiga is an intermedia artist born and raised in Costa Rica and currently immigrating to Canada. He grew up between his father’s sculpture shop and the sacred art business of his grandparents and uncles, yet he studied painting at the University of Costa Rica, and now is more interested in installation art. Emmanuel’s practice is centered in the interrelationship between medium and technology as a physical condensation of information, so he usually pays attention to the material and technical processes within the production of things. He disassembles, combines, and reorganizes deposed and new objects, materials, and technologies to build scenarios and things in which enigmatic associations trigger alternative narratives to our capitalist notion of progress. Thus,

+++Artist of the month / June 2024+++


Emmanuel Zúñiga is an intermedia artist born and raised in Costa Rica and currently immigrating to Canada. He grew up between his father’s sculpture shop and the sacred art business of his grandparents and uncles, yet he studied painting at the University of Costa Rica, and now is more interested in installation art. Emmanuel’s practice is centered in the interrelationship between medium and technology as a physical condensation of information, so he usually pays attention to the material and technical processes within the production of things. He disassembles, combines, and reorganizes deposed and new objects, materials, and technologies to build scenarios and things in which enigmatic associations trigger alternative narratives to our capitalist notion of progress. Thus, Emmanuel’s intention is to invite viewers to stage other realities by reflecting on their own sensorial experience of the artworks.

Emmanuel is winner of the National Hall of Visual Arts in the three-dimensional category with “The fish-tank” (2022), organized by the Costa Rican Art Museum, as well as two-time winner of the Elspeth McConnell Fine Arts Award (2023-24), given by the Concordia Faculty of Fine Arts to work at the Atelier La Coulée. Emmanuel has also represented the Performing Arts Memory of Costa Rica before the XIV Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Czech Republic (2019), and participated at the residency Raptors: reflection and action (2019), directed by the nicaraguan artist Patricia Belli. Emmanuel has a postgraduate degree in painting from the University of Costa Rica and is currently majoring in Intermedia (video, performance, and electronic arts) in Concordia university.
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Emmanuel Zúñiga
Emmanuel L. Jean aka Mano la Muerte

+++Artist of the month / May 2024+++


+++Founding Member+++


Emmanuel grew up in Quebec City, he moved to Montreal for his university in 2007, the year in which he met those with whom he created the collective Nesto Cienfuegos (Centfeux).

Since then, he has worked on most of the collective's film and video projects, in all positions and on all fronts. He has been mainly part of the image editing team for various film productions and behind the camera for his more exploratory projects.

His artistic practice also includes drawing, photography and music. Under the pseudonym Mano la Muerte, he is part of the rap

+++Artist of the month / May 2024+++


+++Founding Member+++


Emmanuel grew up in Quebec City, he moved to Montreal for his university in 2007, the year in which he met those with whom he created the collective Nesto Cienfuegos (Centfeux).

Since then, he has worked on most of the collective's film and video projects, in all positions and on all fronts. He has been mainly part of the image editing team for various film productions and behind the camera for his more exploratory projects.

His artistic practice also includes drawing, photography and music. Under the pseudonym Mano la Muerte, he is part of the rap project Sarbacane, alongside Philippe Edwards since 2017.

''Creation is a movement that gives meaning to existence, this is what he keeps in mind when the time comes to prepare the sequel.''
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Emmanuel L. Jean aka Mano la Muerte
Sarah Galarneau

+++Curator Centfeux Nov.-Dec. 2025+++


+++Artist of the month / April 2024+++


Sarah Galarneau is a multidisciplinary artist with significant experience in the field of print media. She is currently extending her practice into the creation of biomimetic installations consisting of printed, gathered, and reconstituted material that blur the boundary between plant life and the built world. Sarah studied Art History and Studio Art (2011) and Print Media (2015) at Concordia University and holds an MFA from the University of Waterloo in Ontario (2022). She has exhibited in various locations throughout Québec and Ontario and has completed residencies in Belgium, Mexico, and Peru.
Sarah Galarneau
Juan Munoz

+++Artist of the month / March 2024+++


Born in Colombia in 1979, Juan Munoz faces the French language not as a language of survival since his arrival in Quebec or of adaptation in daily life, but as a literary quest. He has already made himself present in the Quebec panorama with a science fiction short story from Solaris and the winner of a literary prize in Laval in 2012, as well as the inclusion in an anthology of tanka written by French-speaking authors (Éditions Little Clouds, 2013). In Spanish he published El Anticristo Derrotado y otros cuantos (Bronce, 2023), a collection of philosophical short stories.
Juan Munoz
Maryam Abdollahi

+++Artist of the month / February 2024+++


Maryam Abdollahi is an Iranian surrealist with a Master's degree in painting from the Art University of Isfahan. While she is primarily a painter, she has experimented with other mediums ever since her graduation in 2013, channeling her creativity into other fields such as sculpting, calligraphy painting, jewelry design, painting on pottery/ceramics, engraving, and miniature arts. Throughout her artistic journey, she has had solo and group exhibitions in Iran, Spain, and The United States.

Her artistic trajectory has recently undergone a transformative shift, driven by a profound interest in surrealism and the enigmatic realms of the unconscious. This newfound fascination has led her

+++Artist of the month / February 2024+++


Maryam Abdollahi is an Iranian surrealist with a Master's degree in painting from the Art University of Isfahan. While she is primarily a painter, she has experimented with other mediums ever since her graduation in 2013, channeling her creativity into other fields such as sculpting, calligraphy painting, jewelry design, painting on pottery/ceramics, engraving, and miniature arts. Throughout her artistic journey, she has had solo and group exhibitions in Iran, Spain, and The United States.

Her artistic trajectory has recently undergone a transformative shift, driven by a profound interest in surrealism and the enigmatic realms of the unconscious. This newfound fascination has led her into a world, the exploration of which has revolutionized Maryam’s earliest collection of works. Primarily oil on canvas, these pieces portray magical and visionary worlds inhabited by otherworldly entities and archetypal symbols. She creates them automatically without any predetermined thought, pattern, or intention.

"I have ventured into places both familiar and strange, where the majestic presence of a higher force enveloped me. Doors opened one by one, and I was guided in love to unveil myself and find the one who resides within me.

Upon returning, my brush revealed to me where I’ve been”.
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Maryam Abdollahi
Mónica Hernández Vivas

+++Artist of the month / December 2023+++


Born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1988.

Trained as a visual artist in the University of Los Andes (2011) and Universidad Nacional (2015), she has maintained a continuous dance practice all through her life. She is a certified expressive movement facilitator.

As a creative artist she uses Painting, Dance & Drawing to explore aspects of the body/mind, nature & symbols.

“Art represents an opening to the path of self-recognition that can lead us towards a meaningful way of life.”
Mónica Hernández Vivas
Philippe Edwards

+++Artist of the month / November 2023+++


French Canadian who grew up in Chile and Costa Rica. He studied jazz and Indian classical music. His love of different cultures and music lead him to compose works that unite elements that may seem irreconcilable at first glance.

As a yoga teacher and musician, his musical and lyrical work explores how sound and words can elevate CONSCIOUSNESS.

Author, composer and music producer working under his name and the pseudonyms: Old Disciple, Damaru Yoga and part of the duo Sarbacane.
Philippe Edwards
Alexandre Prieur-Grenier

+++Curator Centfeux Nov.2023-Jan.2025+++


+++Founding Member+++


Born in Montréal, Québec in 1985.

His artistic journey began in the world of cinema. After having taken on many roles within the field, he has added to his artistic acumen, work in the fields of drawing, photography and music (Amateur PG).

“Art is an adventure that I cannot do without, a movement that I must share. »
Alexandre Prieur-Grenier
Centfeux
Centfeux is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote, produce and distribute the work and projects of independent artists; to develop a network of contacts based on collaboration, mutual aid and community for the local artistic community in Quebec in order to support its players; to create bridges and encourage exchanges between the different artistic disciplines and those who practice them.

This online art gallery welcomes a new artist each month for a virtual residency, allowing them to showcase their work and create new works. Over time, the role of curator in charge of the gallery is destined to change hands among the founding and resident members, allowing for a
Centfeux is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote, produce and distribute the work and projects of independent artists; to develop a network of contacts based on collaboration, mutual aid and community for the local artistic community in Quebec in order to support its players; to create bridges and encourage exchanges between the different artistic disciplines and those who practice them.

This online art gallery welcomes a new artist each month for a virtual residency, allowing them to showcase their work and create new works. Over time, the role of curator in charge of the gallery is destined to change hands among the founding and resident members, allowing for a variety of perspectives while maintaining a human and personal approach.

Born from the ashes of the Nesto Cienfuegos film collective founded by Emmanuel L. Jean, Federico Cuartas Aristizábal and Alexandre Prieur-Grenier.

Logo by Mónica Hernández Vivas
Site programming by Sherline Clitus and design by Alexandre Prieur-Grenier.
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