Fatine-Violette Sabiri
Fatine-Violette Sabiri (1994, Casablanca) is a multi-disciplinary artist who uses photographic and tactile craft mediums. Her practice employs intuition toward examining personal narratives from encounters with people and objects in her immediate surroundings. The use of photography within Sabiri’s work draws from various sources, referencing her own editorial fashion images, commissioned portraits and personal documentary photographs. Autobiography and storytelling emerge as methods for her art practice, where, throughout the varied disciplines and approaches in her work, she cultivates the importance of instinct, adaptation and humour. Sabiri holds a BFA in Studio Arts with a Minor in Film Studies from Concordia University. Her work has been presented in several solo and group exhibitions, including Pangée (Montréal, 2024), Afternoon Projects (Vancouver, 2024), Parc Offsite/Eli Kerr (Montreal, 2023), Patel Brown (Montreal, 2023), Espace Maurice (Montreal, 2022) Joys (Toronto, 2022), Joe Project (Montreal, 2022), Le 18 (Marrakesh, 2021), Jedna Dva Trì Gallery (Prague, 2020) and Soon.tw (Montreal, 2017). Sabiri is the 2022 recipient of the Burtynsky Grant awarded by the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival. In 2023, she was nominated for the Lynne Cohen Prize and awarded a Vivacité Grant from the Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec (CALQ). Her second publication, Kiss Landing, was released in 2024 with Éditions VU. Upcoming solo projects include solo exhibition at Galerie Eli Kerr (Montreal, 2025).
Jacqueline Beaumont
Jacqueline Beaumont is a transdisciplinary artist and biomedia designer whose work is rooted in the complex relationships between biotechnologies, sexuality, and material culture. their creative process weaves together fiber-craft, polymer engineering and immersive audiovisual media. Her fusion results in an artistic practice that enhances the perception of the body, power and control.
Kee Avil
Montreal producer Kee Avil combines guitar, voice, and electronic production into deconstructed songs informed by a distinctive blend of avant-pop, glitch, post-industrial and experimental folk sensibilities. Her latest album ‘Spine’ was released on Constellation in May 2024 as Bandcamp Album of the Day, garnering widespread critical accolades. The Line of Best Fit declared ‘Spine affirms Kee Avil’s status of an aesthetics and production virtuoso comparable to Jlin or SOPHIE – producing a dripping, cavernous version of glitch slammed with manipulations’ while Uncut described it as ‘Deeply intimate and intensely unsettling… like an alien lifeform flexing its mandibles’. Spine was featured in The Wire, stating ‘Kee Avil’s skeletal grooves hit with an urgent intimacy’ while the Quietus applauded its restrained intensity ‘Spine simmers, sashaying close to eruption. Sounds worm around like squeezed gel’.
Spine expanded Kee Avil’s sonic palette with intensive detail, revealing a compelling new voice in experimental songcraft, where touchstones include PJ Harvey, Eartheater, Shygirl, SOPHIE and Lucretia Dalt; where Juana Molina collabs with Coil, or Grouper melds with Autechre.
From the start, Kee Avil has been the artistic director of the project, including album art, press photos, music videos, and live shows – ensuring the cohesive visual identity that makes her project so unique.