MICHAËLLE
SERGILE
COLOURED WOMEN'S CLUB (WIP)
2021 - 2023
Single weft jacquard weaving, cotton threads, wooden stands, 3min23 sound piece.
Details: Archival image of the first black women's collective to be formed in Montreal in 1902. Courtesy of Union United Church and Nancy Oliver-Mackenzie.
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Coloured Women's Club is named after the first collective of Black women to be formed in Montreal. In 1902, several women came together to create a collective to address the needs of migrant families. They were all involved in the creation of the Union United Church a few years later along with their spouses and other family members. Although they played a role in solidifying Montreal's Black communities, we have very little information on some of them. The few archival images and texts that can be found in the church are very pixelated and for some of them we only have a sentence or two introducing them.
Récemment graduée de l'Université de Concordia, l'œuvre Coloured Women’s Club, fit partie de l'exposition de maîtrise de l'artiste intitulée De nos archives se créeront nos histoires.
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L'artiste tient à remercier le département de Fine Arts à Concordia, le programme de Fibres and Material Practices, le cluster Milieux et ses membres. Elle remercie Geneviève Moisan pour l'apprentissage et les conseils en matière de tissage, Nancy Oliver MacKenzie sans qui elle n'aurait pas su comprendre toute l'importance des archives de la Union United Church, sa directrice de maîtrise Deanna Bowen, son jury composé des artistes, commissaires, littéraires et enseignant.e.s Gaëtane Verna, Joana Joachim, Maya Rae Oppenheimer et Aaron McInstosh, son collègue et mentor Moridja Kitenge Banza et sa famille Wilnie Brézault, Miguel Sergile, Pierre-Antoine Brézault, Marc-Arthur Brézault, Richard Étienne, Benny Étienne, Ji Hee Shin et Benjamin Étienne.
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