Gigi Wenger
Originally from British Columbia, Gigi Wenger is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Québec City. She studied analog photography and illustration at l’Université Laval, Québec, set/costume/lighting design at the Conservatoire d’Art Dramatique de Québec, and most recently, ceramics at the Maison des Métiers d’Art, Cégep Limoilou, Québec.
She has exhibited her work at various solo and group shows, painted murals, animated childrens’ art workshops, created textile creatures, made accessories and costumes for museum activities, designed for theater. Exploring different materials and techniques, challenging her way of working with clay, striving to provoke a true letting go on the part of the artist and a tactile appropriation of the public.
Gigi Wenger’s work is on permanent display at the gallery. To see more of her work go to our online SHOP.
“Gritty urban landscapes and savage folktales inspire me. Somewhere between Where the Wild Things Are, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Princess Mononoke. In these tiny pockets of time and space, revealed by the overlapping of fantastical and real worlds, half-human/half-animal/half-flora creatures consort.
Contrasts compel me. Colour and texture, form and surface. Midnight blue versus neon yellow, rough asphalt versus tender rain. The juxtaposition of two colours, or two textures, that do not go together, creates something different. These unexpected parallels, diversions, this skidding, offer multiple paths to explore. Spontaneity takes over; a narrative imposes itself. An atmosphere, a stolen breath, a stilled movement.
My work strives to reflect a society at the edge of a new world, fierce and febrile.
I am a hand builder and prefer red and dark grogged clays and bright coarse glazes.”