-Bjorn ◾ Alex Tkachuk ◾ Caroline san ◾ Caroline Pierre ◾ Daphnée ◾ Denis-André Desjardins ◾ DS ◾ Evora Night ◾ honest truth ◾ Julien Desrosiers ◾ Melsa Monagne ◾ Nathanël Major ◾ Miss G ◾ Opia & Animaya + Whoroboros ◾ Ruisseau ◾ Stiie Boprie ◾ Svaï ◾ Valérie Labelle-Desmarais ◾ William Desjardins ◾ Willow ◾ Zoé Arte
Biographies (en)
-bJORN
Artistic Director
Bjørn participated in Kink Art 3 as an artist and Artistic director. He returns to the same role for this edition, and is looking forward to sharing his art among other kinky artists and being part of Kink Art 4 in celebration of Kink. Bjørn is originally Danish, having lived in 4 different countries, and is proud to call Montreal his home for more than a decade.
Il parle egalement (enfin) francais (un peu, avec beaucoup d’erreurs), men foretrækker klart at snakke dansk; der er intet sprog som barndommens sprog.
Bjørn paints mixed media oil paintings, expressing his admiration of the female body and his love for that place where pain and pleasure, surrender and serenity, submission and empowerment collide in a space of consensual, healthy, fun, hot exploration of the depths of our desires.
ALEX TKATCHUK
Alex Tkachuk is a queer writer and artist living in the center of Montreal. His background in waste management has led to a focus on using discarded materials for collage. Alex’s work has a surreal bend that uses humor and juxtaposition to draw out the absurd elements inside that which we throw away.
Collage is an art of chance and destruction. It just so happens that these two pieces of trash were next to each other, and it just so happens that they were beautiful. New forms being made through the accidental collisions of the old. All built from forgotten memories. No, from memories that we TRIED to forget. Almost repressed. Bubbling up out of our collective unconscious but now with a new shape, and in that bubbling they reveal things about us.
Sometimes what they reveal is undoubtedly our prejudice, other times it’s just filthy, beautiful and perverse.
Caroline pierre
Caroline holds a bachelor’s degree in visual and media arts from UQAM. She completed a Master in the Science of Management at HEC. She is pursuing a short graduate program in interpretation and cultural mediation at UQTR.
As a professional in visual arts, she has been working since around 2010 as an independent cultural mediator specializing in contemporary and current visual arts. She also works as an assistant curator for education at the Joliette Museum of Art. She specializes in non-publics, marginalized audiences, inclusion, and diversity. Her expertise also covers the development of educational artistic programs from preschool to university level.
As a visual arts artist, she has participated in several group exhibitions and artistic events. She specializes in photography and printmaking. Caroline particularly enjoys alternative and ancient photographic processes, which she combines and hybridizes with digital art processes.
Involved in the recognition of the cultural mediation profession, she sits as a board member on the administrative council of the Regroupement des médiatrices et médiateurs culturels du Québec since 2021.
Caroline san
Founder of Kink Art, defrocked artist
Caroline has been drawing since she could hold a pencil.She was in high school when she focussed on visual arts and theater.
Caroline continued her studies in Fine Arts in college. She continued her journey by undertaking university studies in Animation and Cultural Research. In the mid-90s, she began to explore different mediums and set aside her drawing and sculpture practice – dismayed by the need for a marketing report with her art.
Her experience in communication brought her back to the artistic scene around 2010 when she wrote for a cultural journal in the Laurentians, in her column « En ville, » which featured artists from the region, now established on the island.
Parallel to her professional career in communication, especially in associative circles, she supported the promotional and communication efforts of several artists and a few cultural non-profit organizations for several years. She was sought after as a counselor and coach. Sometimes a member of a board of directors in undisciplined contemporary dance or non-standard theater, Caroline aims to showcase « others » with the same enthusiastic and curious spirit.
Caroline has been producing events for about twenty years and cut her teeth with the technical production of a feminist queer burlesque event, performed, produced, and promoted by and for women and queer people in 2006 (Le Boudoir – Théâtre National). The idea of a meeting between Kink and Art came as a personal challenge in 2016. The adventure continues with this 4th version of the Kink Art event.
daphnée
Daphnée is currently a student in feminist studies, sexology, and visual arts. She likes to combine different fields of study when creating her projects. She has created some installations and sculptures recently, but mostly expresses herself through painting and textile art (embroidery, crochet, and sewing).
She has explored several subjects but always ends up returning to drawings or paintings of live models. She places particular importance on the inclusion of everyone, both in terms of body types and the gender of the people represented in her works. She uses a lot of color and rarely uses natural skin tones, and almost never exposes the faces of her models so that everyone can more easily associate themselves with her works.
She increasingly enjoys combining multiple mediums in her works and wishes to do so more and more.
Daphnée participated in Kink Art 3 and returns with new proposals.
Denis-André Desjardins
Denis-André Desjardins, né à Montréal en 1953. Photographe créatif et passioné, a reçu sa première caméra de son père, comme cadeau de première communion à l’âge de six ans. Il photographiait tout ! Vers dix-sept ans, ce sont les filles, qui devinrent son principal intérêt artistique. Vers 2001, c’est le BDSM qui s’ouvrait à lui. En 2006, il participa au premier concours « The World’s Greatest Erotic Art of Today » où il se plaça septième parmis plus de 300 000 participants.
En août 2013, Denis-André fut l’un des
photographes attitrés à la compétion de natation de l’IPC (International Paralypic Commitee) à Montréal. En juillet 2023, il est invité à exposer ses photos dans le cadre du 40° anniversaire du Colectivo Imagen de Fuengirola et interviewé à la télé espagnole.
Son approche artistique est simple, il recherche les contrastes ; formes, textures, couleurs et surtout, ombre et lumière. Les gens, les objets animés et innanimés, convergent sans le réaliser et il capture avec sa caméra ce que les autres ne voient pas, et nous rappelle que nous coexistons. C’est un
échantillion de ce qu’il voit.
DS
DS is first and foremost a puppeteer and professor of contemporary puppet theater. In her (hopefully not entirely) spare time, she invents all sorts of things: sewing, knitting, paper cutting, etc. Embroidery has long been a desire, probably long hindered by the association with floral patterns and other embellishments for rich clothing.
It is somewhat by chance that, inspired by a drawing by Egon Schiele, DS started her first embroidery, and even more randomly that this embroidery transformed through kinky additions. It looks like the beginning of something. Something stumbling, which seems indiscreet to reveal already, which is possibly the best time to do it, when everything is still possible and open.
EVORA NIGHT
Evora has been haunting the Montreal scene since 2016. First as a neo-bellydance dancer with Symbiosis and Royal T, she can rely on her strength and flexibility inherited from a past in gymnastics, circus, and martial arts. In love with darkness, she presents numbers combining fusion dance, burlesque, acrobatics, fire manipulation, and other luminous accessories.
As a proud representative of Montreal’s Kink community, she relies on fascination to reveal the dark corners of your imagination. She is also the co-organizer of the Spookylicious freakshow: the horror cabaret. Queen of the Obscure and the Sublime, Evora will enchant you with the delightful body paintings she paints with movements and impulses…
HONEST TRUTH
honest truth is a traitor who left art for marketing and then found their passion again for drawing in kinky arts. New to this and only really started sharing their kinky art recently.
They create what they always wanted to draw and hoped that you wanted to see. Usually, it’s in ink drawings but they sometimes paint in oils as well.
jULIEN DESROSIERS
Julien’s artistic journey began with a certification in special effects makeup from Studio Backstage. From there, he completed several private courses in photographic theory and photo editing. During this journey, Julien became interested in photographic techniques, especially the relationship with light. These learnings were consolidated by the photo editing expertise he developed over the past three years in the adult industry.
At the center of his photographic approach lies a marked interest in cinematographic codes. As a result, his works address the narrative aspect of the image. They tend to subvert stereotypes to illustrate scenes that we try to avoid. He works in collaboration with amateur models to whom he gives great freedom of movement. This freedom granted is part of a search for balance between reality and fiction.
MISS G
Technical designer by day and photographer by night, Miss G has a background in fashion design (DEC) and graphic design (AEC). Photography was initially imposed for work and became a true passion, then a creative outlet.
To master the techniques with her devices, she took a few courses in photography and studio photography (Cultural Workshops of UDM).
For a few years, Miss G has been a member of a photography club and has won a few photo contests. The interest in kinky photography came from her Master who saw potential in her and gradually directed her down this path. She loves to explore photography techniques and then let her creativity flow. What Miss G likes to photograph most is emotions and D/s dynamics.
OPIA & ANIMAYA + WHOROBOROS
Opia, Animaya, and Whoroboros have a love of puns and the absurd and turn to kink as a space for play and creative expression. Whether using tote bags as hoods, harmonicas as ball gags, sticks as sticks, or toying with broken human furniture, they’ve used this sphere for folly, and don’t take themselves too seriously.
Arguably a group of brats, many of their scenes and much of their fucktography playfully acknowledges and riffs on the social scripts of power exchange and kink.
We are proud they have accepted our invitation to participate, as we wish to acknowledge and support kinkartistic content creators.
RUISSEAU
After researching ethnology and oral history, Ruisseau, a poet, founded Atelier Mange-Camion, an organization based in Montreal that develops and realizes performances, installations, and participatory social and artistic works activating collective history and imagination.
Ruisseau completed in 2020, October is not the end of a long love story, a series of performative actions echoing the 50th anniversary of the October Crisis; in 2019, Thousand turning points on the meaning of the world, an exquisite corpse written by a thousand hands, and in 2018, the impressive Fire, fire pretty f leading to the restitution of the collection of our first public library and its 14,000 books burned in 1848 in Montreal.
Following an atypical approach between memory, social action, and artistic experimentation, Ruisseau explores and deploys total forms that restore (often with the active participation of the public) the hidden sides of certain social and cultural experiences.
He recently published the collection Boule de flèches, which inspired the exhibition Disappear at the Maison du Développement durable in collaboration with two visual artists (Jean-Benoît Duval and Éliot B Lafrenière).
STIIE BOPRIE
to come…
Stiie has been on our performance stage since Kink Art 1, making us all drool with her sadistic poetry. We are happy to have her back again!
SVAÏ
A photographer for over 15 years, Svai has explored several facets of this medium: landscape photography, product photography, macrophotography, corporate photography… eventually moving towards event photography and portraiture, including boudoir and cosplay photography.
A fan of futurism and aesthetics, he quickly developed a keen interest in textile textures, especially those of leather, latex, and PVC. The contrast of materials or decor, often white or minimalist, also plays an important role in the composition of his images.
Although relatively anonymous, the setups he creates offer the viewer an incursion into his imagination, guiding their senses through the composition or pose of the subject. / Svai participates in Kink Art for the 2nd time as he was noticed in the 3rd edition for the quality and aesthetics of his photography.
VALÉRIE-LABELLE-DESMARAIS
Artistic practice refuses to take only one form but often revolves around the landscape and the fluid nature of memory. She paints abstract landscapes with beeswax and screenprints found photos that she has modified as if they were images of her own blurry memories. Valérie holds a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from Université Laval (which is not located in Laval). This is the « serious » side of what I humbly call her art.
For the rest, Valérie has fun. Some people do Sudoku, she likes to do classical drawing, sing and write songs, sew corsets and strange costumes. She is too curious for her own good and doesn’t like having to choose. / Valérie participated in Kink Art 3 and returns for our greatest pleasure.
WILLIAM DESJARDINS
to come…
WILLOW
Willow is an artist and a curious explorer. Anarchist, without a budget, they explore the poetic and symbolic aspects of the body, sexuality and kink. Willow is a trained contemporary dancer but has discovered photography and video as
complementary mediums.
ZOE ARTE
Zoe is a visual arts teacher and have been researching the psychology of fantasies and alternative sexuality for several years. She has been interested in sexuality in art for a long time.
Zoe is inspiration by her own own experiences but also from their friends and the people I meet in dungeons. Her works reflect feelings, her kinks, and fetishes.
Her favorite mediums are graphite drawing, watercolor, and photography.
GUESTS
The artists Melsa Montagne and Nathanaël Major have accepted our invitation to participate in the 4th edition of Kink Art by presenting a selection of works from their collections. We wish to express our gratitude.
mELSA MONTAGNE
Melsa Montagne is a visual artist who presents us with a series of anonymous portraits. Singular, invented, sensitive humans revealing their truths in the form of emotions. The artist has reached a level of ease and spontaneity in her gestures that now leads her to begin work through the path of abstraction.
Proceeding through pareidolia, she then identifies the expression of a face. Melsa reveals herself in an instinctive and expressive style. This technique leads her to build from accident. She thus avoids repetition and dares renewal.
Melsa has been developing a new approach since 2022. She creates sculptures representing her atypical characters and makes her subjects from various materials such as steel, plaster, fabric, and polyester resin. A new avenue that speaks deeply to her and respectfully coexists with her two-dimensional works.
Melsa lives and works in Montreal.
NATHANAEL MAJOR
The mirror of the soul, Nathanael, defines himself above all as a sculptor. He holds a wealth of knowledge with various materials. Metal has become his preferred medium for his works. This cold and rigid material inspires him.
With his unique way of hammering metal, he manages to create imposing sculptures. He brings forth disturbing and sensitive characters. Some forms on the material deliberately remain raw, stemming from a letting go; he likes to leave traces that tell the history of the work.
Other forms, worked more ardently, give remarkable finesse to the metal. Nathanael creates metal faces that could be described as strange, perhaps offering a feeling of unease in a form of ugliness. Others will be enchanted by the brilliance of beauty or emotions becoming messengers of the work itself. The mirror effect of the metal in the eyes of his sculptures exists to look inside oneself.
The artist creates works that lead us to reflect on ourselves. Narcissism and ego, values to meditate on how we see ourselves and what we want to reveal. Who are we really? Who do we want to be? Some will say that in this reflection, they perceive their soul. Looking at a work by Nathanael is to look at ourselves. His larger-than-life sculptures leave no one indifferent.
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