L’écho de ta voix
2019 | L’Œil de Poisson
Drawing on the legacy of Québec country music, Myriam Jacob-Allard’s practice encompasses various facets, interweaving video, performance and installation, and often making use of a practically DIY production process. Through her own family history, in which this musical culture is a heritage passed down from mother to daughter, the artist takes a deliberately ambiguous position that blends autofiction with a more documentary style. Québec country, which pays particular attention to so-called family values and everyday stories, offers a means of examining the notion of this legacy and, by extension, the difficult tension between memory and forgetting.
—Aseman Sabet
Participants: Bruno Berthold, Alain Côté, Duo SoCool, Nadine Pagé, Sylvie West, Mariette Croteau, Nathaly Larouche, Luc Tremblay, Chantal Larouche, Dona Cormier, Edith Villeneuve, Stéphane Soucy, Claude et Anik Kenny, Sylvie Thibodeau, Véronique Fortin, Joel Bonneau.
For their support in the making of this project, the artist would like to thank: : Denis Allard, Simon Plouffe, Claire Jacob, Nicholas Larouche, Émilie Jacob-Allard, Jean-Philippe Thibault, PRIM, la bourse Claudine et Stephen Bronfman en art contemporain, ainsi que toutes les chanteuses et tous les chanteurs qui ont participé à ce projet.
Photos credits: ODP et Simon Plouffe