Launch
Plein Sud Éditions is pleased to invite you to the launch of its latest publication, the monograph Luce Meunier. Champ. Hosted by Bradley Ertaskiran, which represents the artist, the launch will be an opportunity to join us in celebrating the release of this book, which spans her entire career. The book, priced at $65, and a limited-edition box set designed by the artist, will be on sale on site.
Luce Meunier. Champ
Plein sud éditions, 2026
247 pages
Hardcover
Bilingual French-English edition
Texts: Julie Bélisle and Charles Guilbert
Editor: Hélène Poirier
Graphic design: Studio Feed
ISBN: 978-2-922256-98-7
Distribution in Canada: Dimedia inc. on behalf of the Collectif d’éditeurs d’art contemporain (CÉAC).
Price: $65
Published by Plein sud éditions, the book brings together new essays by Julie Bélisle and Charles Guilbert, edited by Hélène Poirier, Executive Director and publisher of Plein sud, a contemporary art exhibition centre in Longueuil. Design realized by Raphaël Daudelin of Studio Feed.
For over twenty-five years, Luce Meunier has engaged in a dialogue with painting in its most essential materiality. Pigments, canvas, repeated gestures: each work bears the trace of a patient and rigorous exploration. This monograph unveils a complete panorama of the artist’s demanding and ever-renewed practice, entirely devoted to the infinite territory of painting and a defining figure of contemporary art in Quebec.
Bringing together artwork reproductions, studio documentation, and exhibition views, the monograph Luce Meunier. Champ offers a comprehensive overview of the artist’s career. Author Julie Bélisle traces Meunier’s multiple bodies of work produced over the years, highlighting the importance of daily discipline, repeated gestures, and simplicity of means. For his part, Charles Guilbert examines how Luce Meunier has established a living relationship with painting, bringing to light the decisive role of gestures, chance, and human relationships in the making of her world.
This publication was made possible thanks to the generous support of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (Support for Organizational Activities – Publication component) and Groupe Mercille.
Limited-edition box set
(45 editions - 3 sets of 15 editions)
Alongside the release of the monograph, Luce Meunier conceived and produced a limited-edition box set with a unit price of $900. It contains:
- a copy of the book Luce Meunier. Champ;
- a soap etching-aquatint printed at Atelier Circulaire, wrapped in paper made by Retailles from offcuts of her canvases;
- a box.
Available for purchase in person at Bradley Ertaskiran and through the Plein Sud Éditions online store.
Fundraising draw of one copy of limited-edition box set
On the evening of the launch, Plein sud will launch a fundraising draw to win a copy of this limited-edition box set Luce Meunier. Champ generously donated by the artist.
Duration of the draw: November 11 through December 7, 2026
Number of tickets available: 100
Ticket price: $50
Tickets will be on sale at the venue that evening, and then through the Plein Sud Éditions online store.
Plein sud would like to warmly thank Bradley Ertaskiran for its invaluable support and hospitality during this launch.
Biography
Born in Montreal in 1973, Luce Meunier has developed a self-taught experimental art practice centered around the power of materials to act and react. With a deliberate economy of means, she has explored the conditions in which images emerge, generated as much by the materiality of the medium as by the properties or structure of the support.
Having lived in Montreal since the beginning of her career, she set up in 2024 her new creative laboratories in her home-studio in Valcourt in the Eastern Townships, Quebec, surrounded by the wide open spaces of nature.
Meunier has distinguished herself in numerous solo and group exhibitions across Canada and beyond. Her work has been featured in retrospective exhibitions at the Maison de la culture Claude-Léveillée (Montreal), and the Centre d’exposition Yvonne L. Bombardier (Valcourt), in solo shows at Bradley Ertaskiran (Montreal), Christie Contemporary (Toronto), the Centre d’exposition Plein sud (Longueuil), Centre Clark (Montreal), and Sobering Galerie (Paris). Group exhibitions include the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Musée d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul, the Biennale internationale d’estampe contemporaine de Trois-Rivières (BIECTR), the Karsh-Masson Gallery (Ottawa), and the Dunlop Art Gallery (Regina). Meunier’s works can be found in various private and institutional collections, including the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (CPOA), the National Bank of Canada, the Royal Bank of Canada, as well as the Desjardins, Hydro-Québec, City of Montreal, and Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec collections, among many others.
Luce Meunier is represented by Bradley Ertaskiran in Montreal.
