Mathieu Laca gently swings between visual arts and literature. With its Feather portraits, a little book published by Éditions du Passage, it offers us the pleasure of seeing the two brought together. The work brings together portraits of twenty local writers, some living, others dead, accompanied by texts describing the painter’s relationship with their works. On the faces of everyone, from Gaston Miron to Caroline Dawson, from Simon Roy to Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, he marked the traces of works, the traces of life. Literature, he writes, “demands so much that the writer often emerges transformed. Over time, this singular activity leaves traces in the minds, but also on the bodies of those who practice it, making them complex, paradoxical and highly fascinating subjects for the eye of the portraitist,” he writes in the introduction. . For Leonard Cohen, he will draw a blind eye, the one that faces inward. His Larry Tremblay gradually transforms into a painting by Francis Bacon. To read, to watch.
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