The project
Ces vibrations qui nous traversent
Language shapes the way we define ourselves and the world around us. It allows us to tell our stories, share knowledge, and build community. Yet this double-edged tool can serve our multiple emancipations just as much as it can contribute to the construction of restrictive frameworks against which our bodies collide.
If our language is rooted in structures that sometimes divide more than they bring together, what do we do when language is used to dominate, categorize, and erase? When our words reduce land and its inhabitants to resources to be exploited rather than beings with whom we can enter into relationship? When they impose a linear temporality in which the value of bodies is measured by their productivity? Language shapes our worldview and our relationship to it, and this relationship now makes dispossession and destruction possible.
In this polyphonic project, Ella Dawn McGeough, naakita f.k., Beau Gomez, Mélanie O’Bomsawin, Camille Richard, and Florencia Sosa Rey reconnect with that which vibrates, eludes words, and can only be felt through the body. Through their practices, the group embraces porosity, listens attentively to their surroundings, and forges relationships with different natural ecosystems. From these reciprocal connections emerge sharing, support, and the learning of languages shaped by affect.
They make visible the emancipatory power of vulnerability, understood as a posture of openness to other ways of becoming together. Their work reminds us that what we consider intimate is often political. They recognize that these vibrations that move through us can guide us toward new forms of existence that exceed us, beyond words, beyond ourselves, and at the heart of collective movements.
About the artist
Camille Richard – Commissaire
Camille Richard is a writer and independent researcher who lives and works along the St. Lawrence River, between Tiohtià/Montréal and Wolastokuk/Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies. Her research focuses on conceptual and contextual artistic, curatorial, and institutional practices that redefine the parameters of exhibition-making while developing alternative methodologies for the production and transmission of knowledge.
She holds an MA in Art History from the Université du Québec à Montréal. Her curatorial practice takes shape through exhibitions, publications, and reflective workshops. She has further developed her research through residencies at La Chambre Blanche (2021), DARE-DARE (2023), and Fogo Island Arts (2025).
Since 2021, she has dedicated much of her work to serving as Executive and Artistic Director of Est-Nord-Est, where she explores ways of making institutional structures more caring and inclusive.
Beau Gomez
Beau Gomez is a visual artist whose practice explores cross-cultural narratives and the shifting boundaries that define community and otherness. Working across photography, video, and archival material, he treats image-making as both inquiry and mediation, reorienting socially conditioned frameworks to open new modes of relation to counter-histories and inherited forms of knowledge.
His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Centre de la photographie Genève, Princeton University Art Museum, Lenbachhaus Museum, Toronto International Film Festival, Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, and Montreal Institute of Contemporary Art. He is the founder of Fixer, a gathering that reimagines critique as an intimate, non-hierarchical space for dialogue among artists and cultural practitioners across backgrounds and stages of practice.
Ella Dawn McGeough
Ella Dawn McGeough (b. White Rock, Canada on unceded territories of Coast Salish Peoples) negotiates sticky sites of affection and infection, influence and inheritance, obligation and commitment, encounter and entanglement, dreaming and waking, inside and outside, you and me, us and we. They received a BFA from the University of British Columbia (2007) and MFA from the University of Guelph (2013). In 2023, they earned a doctorate from York University in Visual Arts. They have published writing with numerous outlets (Esse, CMagazine, Public Journal, Momus, BlackFlash, among others) and exhibited across Canada, the United States, China, the Philippines, and Europe. Alongside Liza Eurich and Colin Miner, they co-edit the artist publishing project Moire.ca.
Melanie O’Bomsawin
Mother first, then a daughter and granddaughter, Mélanie O’Bomsawin is also a video editor and new media artist. Born to one Abenaki parent and one Québécois parent, she works with video in all its forms to explore her connections to those who came before her and those who will follow. Her practice engages with questions of identity, language, traditions, memory, and intergenerational transmission. Through architectural and site-specific projections, gallery installations, and cultural mediation, she investigates these themes while creating for past and future generations alike. Mélanie is a member of the Abenaki community of Odanak and currently lives in Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyaang / Montreal.
naakita f.k.
naakita f.k. is an interdisciplinary artist based between Zhegagoynak/Chicago and Tio’Tia:Ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. Through place-based and site-specific relations, they consider extractivism, including both resource extraction and extractive ideologies that show up in the wake of violence to land. They have screened, performed, and installed their work internationally with notable institutions such as MoMA PS1, New York, NY (2012); Trinity Square Video, Toronto, ON (2016); Mémoire de l’Avenir, Paris, FR (2019); Videofenster, Cologne, DE (2021); Fonderie Darling, Montreal, QC (2022); Images Festival, Toronto, ON (2023); CAFKA Biennale, Kitchener, ON (2025); the Quebec Biennale, Baie Saint-Paul, QC (2026); and The Block Museum, Evanston, IL (2026).
They have received grants and awards from Trinity Square Video (2016), Saw Video (2017), Museum of Jewish Montreal (2020), Canada Council for the Arts (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025), CALQ (2022), LOJIQ (2024) and Northwestern University (2025). Since 2021, they have completed residencies with Jardins de Métis, Ada X, Fonderie Darling, Klondike Institute of Art and Culture and the China America Reel Ecology Program. In 2016, f.k. completed their BFA in Intermedia Arts at Concordia, Montreal, QC and in 2026 they received their MFA in Art, Theory & Practice from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
Florencia Sosa Rey
Florencia Sosa Rey is a visual artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal. Her multidisciplinary practice, rooted in a corporeal sensibility, unfolds primarily through abstract drawing, performance art, and video, articulating questions surrounding the sociocultural histories carried by the body.
In 2022, Florencia presented FatherDaughter, a public space performance supported by the Phi Foundation. The following year, the artist presented her first solo exhibition, In Search of Breathful Intimacies, at Plein sud, centre d’exposition en art actuel de Longueuil. Her work has been included in the group exhibitions Arthlétisme at Artexte, curated by Didier Morelli, and Fils flux figment at Livart x ARTCH. Her three-hour performance Comment rester (2024) was presented at Fonderie Darling. Her first short film was screened in 2025 as part of the exhibition Ces vibrations qui nous traversent at DRAC, Drummondville. Her second solo exhibition, On Horizon and (Un)Belonging (2025), was presented at the Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University.
Florencia has participated in several artist residencies in Québec and internationally, including Est-Nord-Est. Her work has been presented in Canada, Iceland, and Argentina. Sosa Rey is the recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, ARTCH, and LOJIQ.