Gaëlle Étémé is an emerging, multidisciplinary, and self-taught artist based in Sherbrooke. Working in mixed media, she uses new and used materials (paper, cut-up textile scraps, canvas), using India ink, oil paint, and acrylics with touches of pastel, primarily on large-format canvas and paper to question the precariousness of text and explore the depths of the line in an approach she describes as calligraphic lyricism in painting. Indeed, her work stems from a highly personal reinterpretation of the calligraphy of ecstasy, a movement of writing, painting, and music that developed within the ...