Artist talk with Sophie Jodoin

Montreal-based Artist Sophie Jodoin will give an artist talk at Nipissing’s Monastery Hall at 10 a.m. on Friday, November 15.Since 2004, Jodoin has worked exclusively in black and white. Her austere, minimalist drawings frequently serve as the starting point for large-scale presentations involving collage, painting, video and found objects. Her works have been exhibited internationally in artist-run spaces, private and public galleries, museums and art fairs, and can be seen in the current issues of two periodicals dedicated to drawing: Berlin-based FUKT, and Montreal's HB magazine.
An exhibition of Jodoin’s work is opening at Line Gallery on Friday November 15, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., in conjunction with North Bay's Downtown Gallery Hop. The Downtown Gallery Hop is free and open to the public.
and so uncertain suddenly: an installation of drawings about longing, distance, loss, recognition, relationship, time.
At the heart of the exhibition lies tiny tender love poems - a collaboration between a poet and a visual artist living in distant cities. In a series of twelve small works on paper, excerpts of emails sent from Vancouver have been paired with detritus collected from the streets in Montreal. The interweaving of words and images across the twelve works constitutes a single hybrid visual poem and a portrait of the inherent intricacies and ephemerality pervading a long-term relationship.?