Interested in rewriting history through weaving, Michaëlle Sergile mainly reworks texts and books on postcolonial theories. Frantz Fanon, often cited as one of the most important authors of postcolonial theories, addressed in 1952, in Black skin, white masks, not only the power relations between colonized and colonizers, but also the relations between the person of colour and their "community". It is through this major work that the codification system took shape allowing the artist to weave books and passages thus questioning cultural identity.
The lexicon of weaving is closely linked to questions of identity. When we weave threads that intersect and form intersections, these are, in a way, discourses that take place. They reflect at times, a cultural mix where the fabric becomes a cross between different cultures. While by others, these threads reflect the intersections of an intersectional thought.
She also questions the relationship between the writings of authors, such as Frantz Fanon, Mayotte Capécia and Félix Mnthali, the place that black women occupy in these postcolonial narratives and cultural identity as well as the notion of the "foreigner" through mediums such as photography and sculpture.
She has been long listed for the national prize Sobey 2022 and has several exhibitions to her credit, one in Brooklyn at the ArtHelix gallery and another in Miami at the Aqua Art Fair.
Michaëlle Sergile worked as an art director and curator for the Nigra Iuventa.
RÉSIDENCES
Résidence Hugues Charbonneau
Galerie Hugues Charbonneau
June to July, 2022
Résidence La Coulée
La Coulée
May to June, 2022
Mission Biennale de Dakar 2020
Sous Moridja Kitenge Banza/ Centre Clark
Politiques + (In)visibles
Artexte
October to January, 2019
PRIX ET BOURSES
Prix Sobey
Longue liste
May 2022
Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC)
June 2020
Bourse de création ARTCH
June 2019
Prix Jean Pitre et Claude Leclerc
Galerie de l'UQÀM, UQÀM
April 2019
Peter N Thompson Fellowship
Concordia
March 2019
Prix d'excellence en arts visuels
Place des Art, UQÀM
January 2019
Bourse UQÀM
Symposium interuniversitaire
August 2017
CURATION
DATA THIEVES
Never Apart
January to March, 2021
JE SAIS POURQUOI CHANTE L'OISEAU EN CAGE
Fonderie Darling
Centre culturel Georges-Vanier
Galerie du CDEx
February 6 to 27, 2020
SUBALTERNES
Galerie du CDEx
February 4 to 9, 2019
SOLO EXHIBITIONS + UPCOMING
RASANBLAJ (Solo)
Curation by Joséphine Denis
Centre l'Imagier
August 2023
DE NOS ARCHIVES SE CRÉERONT NOS HISTOIRES (Solo)
Centre Plein Sud
Winter 2023
GESTURE : BODY MOVEMENTS IN POLITICAL DISCOURSES (Solo)
Maison des arts de Laval
February - April 2023
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
LALO COMME MACOUTE
Cube Leonard & Bina Ellen Galery
January 31 - May 15 2022
ARTCH ET LE CAM PRÉSENTENT COLAS EKO, MICHAËLLE SERGILE RIHAB ESSAH
Montreal Council of Arts
October 21 to November 21, 2019
ARTCH 2019
Square Dorchester
September 11 to 15, 2019
PASSAGE À DÉCOUVERT
Galerie de l’UQAM
April 26 to May 6, 2019
SUBALTERNES
Galerie du CDEx
February 4 to 9, 2019
PARAMÊTRES XVIII
Places des arts
January 11 to 24, 2019
PEINTURE FRAÎCHE, NOUVELLE CONSTRUCTION
Art Mûr
July 14 to August 25, 2018
REPAIRE VARIABLE
407 De Maisonneuve Ouest
April 17 to 25, 2018
SAANA YANGU
Galerie du CDEx
February 16 to 24, 2018
PARCOMÈTRES
407 De Maisonneuve Ouest
January 2018
TALES OF HUMAN IDENTITY
Aqua Art Fair, (Miami, États-Unis)
December 2017
TALES OF HUMAN IDENTITY
Shim, ArtHelix, Brooklyn, (New York, États-Unis)
June 2017
TRANSFORMATION
Le Livart
June 2017
HUMAN AFTER ALL
Galerie Patrick Mikhaïl
May 20 to June 1st, 2017
RESIDENCIES
Mission Biennale de Dakar 2020
Moridja Kitenge Banza/ Centre Clark
May 2022
Politiques + (In)visibles
Artexte
October to January, 2019
AWARDS
Sobey Prize
Long listed
May 2022
Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC)
June 2020
Bourse de création ARTCH
June 2019
Prix Jean Pitre et Claude Leclerc
Galerie de l'UQÀM, UQÀM
April 2019
Peter N Thompson Fellowship
Concordia
March 2019
Prix d'excellence en arts visuels
Place des Art, UQÀM
January 2019
Bourse UQÀM
Symposium interuniversitaire
August 2017