This event is part of our public + programming
As part of the Wayfinders exhibition, Raphaëlle de Groot invites you to a sensory immersion extending her participatory work, Colin-maillard. This workshop offers an exploration of drawing as a haptic experience. Participants will be invited to explore amorphous, textured forms. With one hand, you will feel the curves and roughness; with the other, you will translate the rhythm and path of this discovery onto paper. By also exploring tactile portraiture and contour drawing, the activity shifts attention toward inward perception. Drawing a line on paper becomes first a line traced within oneself, in the sensitive space of the body. Sighted participants are encouraged to wear blindfolds.
→ This workshop is bilingual (English/French).
→ Registration required.
ABOUT+
Originally from Montréal, Raphaëlle de Groot now lives between Québec and the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines in Italy. She is interested in aspects of human experience that are difficult to represent, such as sensations, the sense of belonging in the world, and various states of attention, presence, and engagement. Through performative gestures and participatory processes, her practice produces objects, images, and interactions that settle and take form across a variety of forms, materials and media. A graduate of the Master of Fine Arts program in Visual Arts at Université du Québec à Montréal (2007), she has been presenting her work on the Canadian and international scene for over 25 years. Notable presentations include the Venice Biennale (2013), Nuit Blanche in Paris (2019), and most recently, Busan MoCA in South Korea (Seeing with Ten Fingers, 2025). She received the Sobey Art Award in 2012.