Le Lin at Atelier Circulaire, July 2024
Le Lin (he/they) is the recipient of the 6th Louis-Pierre Bougie Grant for Emerging Printamaking Artists. His 12-month research-creation residency began in June 2024.
His project of the residency will be : My project will be a series of imaginative landscapes of China’s ethnic minorities, focusing on current geopolitical tensions and lived experiences in those regions. I invite individuals from these regions and their diaspora living in Montréal, to collectively map their stories, landscapes, and memories. Using a mixture of Silk-screen, Japanese Woodblock, and Intaglio at Atelier Circulaire, this project will culminate in a series of prints (each print being a collage of different Shan Shui Hua and topographies from each region), and a large scroll that situates each region in relation to each other. The different visual poetics will bring about the hybridity of voices, transforming our ideas of place over time and distance.
林乐 Le Lin (pronouns 他 he/they) is a trans Teochew-Canadian multi-disciplinary artist, designer, activist, and researcher based in Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal, Quebec.
They love expanding and finding new ways to create art through book-making, typography, calligraphy, illustration, mixed media, and various printmaking techniques (silk-screen, risograph, letterpress, offset). Their work is oriented towards experiences of joy, empathy, and connection, and informed by thoughts and ideas that are authentic to their diasporic experience; these include gender, racialization, queerness,language, and identity. They are a firm believer that art/designshould be tools of resistance, acts of vulnerability, and uplifting one
another.