GODBOUT, Gaétane

Multidisciplinary artist Gaétane Godbout holds a BFA from the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT). A teacher and an artist, she has completed numerous residencies and shown her work in solo and group exhibitions both in Canada and abroad; these include Beaucoup de mousse et bien peu de temps (“so many suds and so little time”; 2006) in Rouyn-Noranda’s L’Écart, the contemporary artist-run centre of which she is a founding member. This exhibition focused on the phenomena of carwashes, examining the frenetic pace of modern society and the contradictions that arise between movement and immobility, private and public life. Godbout’s work comprises paintings, installations, photography, video and relational aesthetics. She has taken part in events such as Trafic Inter/nationale d’art actuel, the activities of the artist collective RN-34, the Symposium d’art actuel de Moncton and a residency and exhibition at the Roskilde Museum of Contemporary Art in Denmark. She has also created works of integration into architecture, notably for the Barraute municipal library (1994), the atrium of UQAT’s Rouyn-Noranda campus (1995) and the Lorrainville library (2011). In 2008, she received the “regional artist” award at the Ville-Marie Miniature Art Biennale.