2025 | GROUP EXHIBITION
RÉSONANCES
MONTREAL - HOLT RENFREW OGILVY
Nov 7 - Mid Jan 2025

Opening : Thursday November 7, 2025, 6pm - 8pm

Blouin Division is proud to present the exhibition Resonances, bringing together the works of four artists, each engaging in a unique reflection on form, material, and space. Daniel Langevin, Sarah Stevenson, Francine Savard, and Matthew Feyld offer singular yet complementary approaches that question notions of presence, absence, and materiality.

Sarah Stevenson explore the concepts of encapsulation and transparency through works that appear to float in space. Using simple materials like fishing line and wire, she creates light, voluminous structures whose contours are traced by a network of colored lines. Suspended from above, these forms sometimes appear nearly invisible, requiring the viewer to move around them to perceive their subtleties. The empty space within these structures becomes an essential element of her works, as much as the physical materials

that define them.

Matthew Feyld focuses on a single motif: the dot. This element, chosen for its neutrality rather than its circular form, becomes the basis for his exploration of positive and negative space, presence and absence. In his works, the white dot, often perceived as a distinct entity, is actually the unpainted background of the canvas, recessed compared to the layers of accumulated paint. His compositions, structured around the tondo format, eliminate internal relationships, presenting themselves as autonomous surfaces, rich with

meticulously layered colors, revealing a chromatic complexity through an apparent simplicity.

Francine Savard grounds her work in a deep relationship with painting and its history. Her body of work, consisting mainly of individual paintings and monochrome series, is the result of twenty years of meditation on color and surface. Savard draws inspiration from the great painters she admires, weaving subtle connections between their work and her own. Her recent paintings, for example, link art historian Otto Grautoff’s observations on Poussin to certain works by Charles Gagnon or Yves Gaucher, creating a silent dialogue between past and present.

Daniel Langevin, for his part, is interested in graphic systems characterized by simplicity and organizational rigor. His paintings, despite their apparent simplicity, result from a complex and precise process, with each step scrupulously followed. The tensions between the identifiable and the unrecognizable animate his compositions, composed of elementary yet unexpected motifs. Each work is framed by a line that contains an arrangement of lines and dots, creating a visual dynamic that captivates the eye and invites prolonged contemplation.

Resonances focuses on the dialogue between the works of these four artists, whose pieces and installations illustrate the relevance of minimalism and the power of form.

Réssonances (Holt)