Biography
Rotchild Choisy is an emerging multidisciplinary artist who holds a Baccalauréat en arts visuels (2022) from the Université de Moncton. Between April and June 2022, he presented his work in a series of solo exhibitions at the Alliance Française cultural salon, the Galerie d'art Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen and the Salle Sans Sous of the Galerie Sans Nom, all in Moncton. He has also been awarded several leadership scholarships, as well as the Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation Merit Scholarship in 2020. He recently presented his work in a solo exhibition at the Capitol Theatre Art Gallery entitled E.S.M.I, in the 7th edition of the Sudbury Alternative Art Fair and in a group installation at Académie Sainte-Famille as part of Dialogues Riopelle, celebrating the artist's 100th birthday, and was selected for the Beaverbrook Art Gallery's Studio Watch in 2023.
Project
CAMITA JASMIN
THE SONS WE ARE BECAUSE MATANT WAS THERE!
Memories and anecdotes for a room full of space
My most recent work focuses on anecdotal memories and the emotions attached to them, as well as on the multiple identities constructed and maintained by the mask in social relationships and intimacy.
Based on my photographic archives and the intimate texts I write, and sometimes on reference images from everyday life, I explore compositions in drawing, engraving, photomontage and painting, or a combination of these techniques, to give new life to a memory rooted in anecdotes and to reflect on the issue of safeguarding identity.
I also seek to highlight the possible play of the image within the image and its degree of saturation, which amounts to transposing a multitude of anecdotal scenes into a compact, improvised composition.
During my residency, I'd like to produce a series of paintings and monotypes in print to paint a portrait of my Grandmother (Matant), based on archival images and anecdotal memories in this text entitled Quand Matant est partie… ! which I produced in October 2017.
To pay tribute and to truly heal from this abrupt departure of a candle that strongly illuminated our childhood, my father's, my older brother's and mine.