Opening: Despite Everything, The Light
Fri, Nov 20
|Galerie Éclats
In Suzanne Olivier’s work, mountains become clouds and matter changes state. Her oil paintings speak of an Earth in crisis, and of what, despite everything, remains luminous.
TIME & LOCATION
Nov 20, 2026, 5:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Galerie Éclats, 372 Sainte-Catherine Street West, Montreal, QC, Canada
ABOUT THE EVENT
Galerie Éclats 521 is pleased to invite you to the opening of Light, Nonetheless, a retrospective of Suzanne Olivier’s oil paintings, 1988–2026.
Thursday, November 19, 5:00 to 8:30 p.m.
Honorary Chair : The Honourable Pierre Moreau, P.C., Government Representative in the Senate, Senator for Les Laurentides
A landscape can carry the memory of a changing planet. Trained at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, and first a sculptor of wood, stone and iron, Suzanne Olivier came to painting through a long path of her own. As an heir to Borduas and Quebec Automatism, she lets a first line or stain open the canvas, without a model or a specific memory: the subject reveals itself as the work unfolds. She calls her approach “geopicturalism”, a way of translating the phenomena of the Earth (valleys, volcanic tremors, droughts and darkened skies) into a material where mountains become clouds and distant horizons draw…