Suzelle Levasseur earned a BFA in visual arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal in 1976. She completed an internship at the Studio du Québec à Paris and Cité internationale des arts in 1992 and 1993. She has had solo exhibitions, including one at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal in 1987, and her work has been presented in group exhibitions such as Femmes artistes du XXe siècle au Québec, at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, in Québec City, in 2010. Her works are in numerous public and private collections.
Artwork description
The work is installed in the Accès Montréal office, in the main entrance of the Sud-Ouest Borough city hall; it was created to give a soul to this multifunctional site that is an area for transit, reception, encounter, and work.
Formed of seven tondi, the artwork counts on the capacity of colour to bring in light and create space. Each tondo acts as a painting, a window piercing the wall. The three largest tondi portray some of the most attractive buildings in the Sud-Ouest Borough: the city hall, in red; the Turcot Exchange, in yellow; and the Lachine Canal, in blue. The smaller paintings refer to sensory receptors and evoke the gaze of those who took part in building these structures; they invite visitors to explore, to learn about their environment, and to imagine themselves in these locations.