Le Désert Mauve FR+CA/QC

Sound artist Gabrielle Harnois-Blouin and visual artist Charline Dally based in Montreal

Gabrielle HB is a sound artist from Montreal who uses her voice, synthesizers, field recordings, and text scores to generate music. She improvises on stage, composes for contemporary musicians and dancers, and is currently completing a master’s degree in Sound Art at University of the Arts in London, England. Recently, she has played with Ensemble d’oscillateurs, presented her installation Documents:champs at Galerie Le Livard (Montréal), and completed a creative residency in Toluca, Mexico, with her project Jardín (with Florence Garneau). Charline Dally has a background in visual arts and graphic design and through her practice, offers up reflections on our perception of reality—especially as relates to boundaries between body and environment, human and non-human, and self and otherness. Her work has been presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Toronto); Eastern Bloc, Perte de signal, Galerie de l’UQAM, Espace culturel Georges-Émile-Lapalme at Place des Arts (Montréal); Festival 12×12 (Paris); and Young International Art Fair (Brussels). Together as Le désert mauve, Gabrielle and Charline use soft audiovisual synthesis to provide delicate experiences that oscillate between fluid landscapes, neverending views, and microscopic dances. They develop slow, subtle progressions that erode at notions of time.

They perform at the Play program: https://montreal.mutek.org/en/artists/le-desert-mauve-1