GÉNIER, Diane (1956-2015)

A graduate of Université Laval, Diane Génier is the co-founder and general director of the Centre d’art contemporain AXENÉO7. Well known for her work in drawing and photography, she completed an installation for the exhibition Le temps des cendres, les carnets d’Eurydice (1997) and took part in La Face, un moment photographique at the Dazibao gallery in 1998. She formed the group Hécate in collaboration with artist, professor and art historian François Chalifour, with whom she presented De la grotte au temple, leçon de dessin (2014) at Galerie Art-image of the Maison de la culture de Gatineau, creating artist’s books using hefty Moleskine notebooks. Also in 2014, the pair came together with Stanley Wany to establish the group Cerbère and produce Projet Orphée, an exhibition centred on the realm of virtual reality that was shown at Espacémi at the Université du Québec en Outaouis. Génier’s other works include architecturally integrated pieces, notably a suspended sculpture and a mural at the municipal library of Masson-Angers, murals at the Centre d’accueil Manoir du Sacré-Cœur in Fort Coulonge and a low relief at the Kazabazua primary school (1997-1998).