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2017-2018 has been plentiful for LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE. In this bulletin, author Anne-Sophie Blanchet lets us discover the universe of the artists who passed through our centre. In September 2017, she met with Marco Casella who worked on the conception of a landscape destined to be heard, seen and imagined. While roaming the city, the artist translated the locations he visited into sounds in order to synthesize the urban space. For his part, Quelic Berga turned the gallery into a research laboratory. He worked to develop a rhizomatic film editing software from various real data. A similar interest for digital art data can be found in the work of Owen Chapman and Peter Sinclair. These two artists gathered their potential around the creation of a project focusing on mobility in urban areas. In collaboration with Seconde Nature’s Futur DiverCities project, a partnership between Europe and Quebec, they designed avatars inspired by the movement in the city of the various participants. During the Mois Multi, artist Pavitra Wickramasinghe has produced an installation reminiscent of the sea. She has crumpled, folded, and cut paper using various methods. The accumulation of paper objects in the gallery recalls the motion of the waves. The year ended with the installation of artist and activist Pan Wang during an exchange between Quebec and China. In LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE gallery, he exhibited the artefacts of a performance filmed on the Dufferin terrace. With his presence in such an emblematic and tourist sites of Quebec City, he wanted to underscore the inability to take such action in his own country.