Heloïse Audy, Marie Clark

The house whose door opens at the end

Public presentation: Friday 16 October 2026, 5 PM

DesPrés — 57 Principale Nord Street, Sutton, QC

Public presentation

Following their residency week at Després, Heloïse Audy and Marie Clark invite the public on Friday, October 16, to a two-hour workshop to learn about short poetic writing and to create a structural form using natural fibers that dialogues with the poem’s unspoken elements.

Biography

Marie Clark has lived and written in Sutton for over twenty years. She has published five novels, a writer’s notebook, and a collection of poetry and haikus. She taught creative writing for 12 years and leads writing workshops of all kinds. She has been involved in her community through cultural mediation projects such as Un conte à la fenêtre (2020) and the Cocon à poèmes (2023). Convinced that saying little is not saying little, Marie Clark favors short, concise writing that, by concentrating the essence, intensifies the emotion.

https://marieclark.ca/

Héloïse Audy teaches visual arts at Cégep Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu. She is the recipient of several grants (Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec, Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture du Québec, Centre international des arts de Montréal). Her works have been presented in several Canadian provinces, Norway, and Argentina. In her artistic practice, she uses a variety of traditional and contemporary techniques borrowing from weaving and basketry to create structural or installation works that tell stories. Through these mediums, she achieves a tactile understanding of what lives around her.

https://heloiseaudy.com/home.html

Approach

The ongoing project seeks to create a dialogue between two artistic practices, one visual and the other poetic, through the poem The house whose door opens at the end, which speaks with great economy of language about succeeding in inhabiting one’s inner house, that little-known body-self discovered over a lifetime.

Our project is built around a 52-stanza poem of two to three lines, written by Marie Clark. This minimalist poetic form is perfectly suited to a dialogue with an organic sculptural medium, as practiced by Héloïse Audy. The poetic suite speaks in almost impressionistic touches of inhabiting one’s house, this body-self populated by a constantly evolving inner life. The goal is to build bridges between two artistic practices, to open a concrete, real, and material space with a delicacy that echoes the fragility of language. We intend to explore different fibers and plant materials and utilize root-based textiles to create volumes that resonate with the words of the poem.