Aires de migrations
(migration areas)

Raymonde April & Michèle Waquant
2005

Raymonde et Michèle, La Chambre Blanche, 1980

In 2002, Raymonde April and Michèle Waquant were invited to exhibit their work together in Quebec. (...) The artists were drawn to the term together and began to think about what has connected them for nearly thirty years. Together was a history made up of shared moments, of discoveries, travels, friends in common, and also the uninterrupted exchange of ideas on their photographic and video work; together was also a geography which seemed to follow the meanderings of the St. Lawrence River, passing Quebec City, where they met in the 1970s, and Montreal, where Raymonde settled, and stretching all the way to France, where Michèle moved in 1980. By rummaging in the past and present of this in common, a vast territory of enquiry opened up and an ambitious project took shape; for what was at stake was nothing less than to cross their respective itineraries, biographies and image practices.

Dominique Abensour, Together, excerpt