I use several mediums such as photography, film and drawing, interweaving techniques of experimentation. In this perspective, the polaroid film is fascinating because it can easily be deconstructed and hybridized. I thus try to take the medium out of its conventional use. Collage, emulsion lift and brush printing are all techniques that I like to give substance to my ideas. I also work with 120, 110, 35mm and Super 8 film. The question of the ecological impact of artistic production is central to my work. Thus, the two milestones that frame each of my projects are the production management and the direction of the material, often second hand. This framework encourages me to accept installing the creation in the duration. The uncertainty brought by the manual processes and the expired films is an impulse for creation. I adapt to the versatility of the supports. Sensitized in my university studies to the methods of choreographic creation by the hazard, I grant to it a real place in my work. The creation of my work becomes a game of exchange between ideas and material.

About

Alix Galdin is a french photographer and filmmaker born in 1985, based in Montréal. Interested in analogue photography from a very young age, she gradually learned to develop and print in the darkroom and then work with alternative techniques on film or paper. She uses in particular small format films such as 110 or Super 8 and instant films. She joined the board members in 2017 and has been giving courses in photo development and workshops on the polaroid emulsion lift technique. Since 2017 she has participated in several group exhibitions in Quebec and France. Her work has been presented at the artist centre La Cenne (Montreal), at the Gesù for Maison Photo Montréal and the Capsule Galerie (Rennes), as well as at the cultural bar VV Tavernä (Montreal) for a solo exhibition in 2020. That same year, she made her first short documentary in Super 8 film, Sainte-Croix, distributed by GIV, which depicts the world of Quebec musician Pierre Potvin. In 2021-2022 she will be supported by Vidéographe in a mentoring program with filmmaker Guillaume Vallée to produce the film, Opaline.