Land scape Special Edition CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW Intution plays an important role in your become singular, with assurance. My interests approach and your visual language is remain the same, but I now fully stand by primarily and profoundly instinctive: how do them! I am driven by a sense of urgency. So you considerthe role of chance and many new paths remain to explore. I always improvisationplaying within your artistic have the sense of just starting out! process? I would like to be more disciplined in my Marie Rioux: I am naturally instinctive and pictorial investigations. A short while ago I experience has taught me to have confidence decided to work in series, because this method in myself. So when I start work on a project I will enable me to explore, from the same basically reflect on the colours I wish to use. starting point, the many aesthetic possibilities Improvisation comes to the fore in my first of a work. I’m presently working on an exciting brushstrokes as I apply layers of colours to new series taken from my painting “Rivière establish the ambience of the work. Humber” (“Humber River”). The goal is to Improvisation thus has a fundamental role for carry out experimental modifications to it by me. inserting various elements using fluorescent colours in order to observe their effect. I would Nevertheless, it is by no means a product of like to explore this composition in depth chance that these hues appear on the surface. without being distracted by my other interests. They are the reflection of what I am feeling Nevertheless, because I now live in Montreal, I more or less consciously at that moment. have the idea of possibly creating a series of Then comes the work’s construction, its small works depicting the heads of unusual composition. In this second stage I sketch out individuals such as those you come across the narrative I have in my head. Despite the regularly on the bus or the subway. This is how spontaneity and freedom of my gestures, an I am: always intensely influenced by my enormous amount of work is involved, experiences in my surroundings. because I maintain a critical eye towards my work and don’t hesitate to start all over if the From November 26 to January 6 a solo show of magic is not there. my work, entitled “Voies de traverse” (“Cross Sometimes little blunders create felicitous Roads”) is being held at the Angers gallery in opportunities: is that a matter of chance? Montreal, and I still have works at the splendid Thanks a lot for your time and for sharing Abbozzo gallery in Toronto and the Jack Meier your thoughts again, Marie. How do you see gallery in Houston. I work a lot and the days in your evolution as a visual artist over time? my studio pass too quickly. Are there any things that you do In addition, I am thinking seriously about the fundamentally different from when you? impact of my medium, oil paint, on the Marie Rioux: Looking back on the work I have environment. I thus have a project of returning made since I started out I see that my ideas to video art. In fact a second version of have not changed but rather have simply “Marche en terrain inconnu” (“Walking on evolved. After several digressions these ideas Unknown Land”). The initial work, dating from have freed themselves from established 2018, was an experimental work made during a artistic fashions and currents. They have research and creation course at UQAR (the