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September 1 | This fall, Le Devoir met the Ontario artist Evergon, on the sidelines of his exhibition “Théâtres de l’intime” at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ). Marie-France Coallier photographed him at home, in his “creative universe”, she says. Evergon is particularly known for having produced homoerotic photographic portraits “whose composition and colors are inspired by European painting”, specifies Marie-France Coallier, in gestures of queer and intimate reappropriation of its codes. Representing sometimes the flame of the moment of the artist, sometimes his mother, Evergon’s works “are love letters”, adds the art critic of Le Devoir Jérôme Delgado. Marie-France Coallier Le Devoir