FIVE QUESTIONS WITH
CarOLINE MONNET
No. 1
Why were you drawn to your medium?
Visual art and film give me the freedom to move between disciplines and languages, to find meaning where words sometimes fall short.
"They let me build structures that hold memory, materialize emotion, and open space for dialogue."
No. 2
What 3 words feel at the heart of your work?
Integrity. Generosity. Resilience.
No. 3
How does where you’re from influence your work?
My upbringing is at the heart of my artistic identity. I grew up navigating two distinct cultural worlds, Indigenous and European. I use art as a way to reconcile these worlds, to create dialogue between tradition and modernity, between the personal and the political.
No. 4
What’s one cultural shift you’re loving lately?
I love the growing cultural shift toward slowness and intentional living, the idea that productivity isn’t everything, and that rest, community, and creativity matter just as much. Redefining success beyond constant hustle. It feels like a collective exhale — a move toward meaning rather than speed.
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No. 5
Dream a little Dream - what are you hoping for?
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I envision a world where Indigenous peoples, especially women, are seen in their full complexity: modern, powerful, and unapologetically creative. I dream for a future where multiple identities can coexist without conflict, where cultural diversity is celebrated rather than questioned.
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CAROLINE MONNET
Caroline Monnet is a multidisciplinary artist of Anishinaabe and French ancestry, originally from the Outaouais region, who lives and works in Mooniyang/Montreal. With a deep interest in communicating Indigenous identity through complex cultural narratives, her artistic and cinematographic work grapples with colonialism’s impact, updating outdated systems with anishinaabeg methodologies.
With bachelor's degrees in sociology and communications from the University of Ottawa and the University of Granada (Spain), her work has been shown in solo exhibitions, notably at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Canada), Kunsthalle Schirn (Frankfurt, Germany), Arsenal art contemporain (New York, USA), Centre International d'Art et du paysage de l'île de Vassivière (France) and the University of Toronto Art Museum (Canada). The artist has also exhibited at the Whitney Biennial (New York, USA), the Toronto Art Biennial (Canada), KØS Museum (Køge, Denmark), Musée d'art contemporain (Montréal, Canada) and the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, Canada), among others.