Claudia Goulet-Blais, Un geste familier | A Familiar Gesture, from the Entre tes mains | In Your Hands series, 2025, inkjet print, 127 x 101.6 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.

Michelle Caron-Pawlowsky, Untitled, from the Finishing Holds | Prises Finales series, 2025, inkjet print mounted on plywood, 53 x 53 x 15.5 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.

Reception

Opening Reception | Pull Them in Close | Se Tenir Proche

Add to Itinerary

Event Dates

Apr 11, 2026

Time

12:00 pm – 3:00 pm

ADMISSION
Free

RSVP not required.

Join artists Claudia Goulet-Blais and Michelle Caron-Pawlowsky for the opening reception of their exhibition Pull Them in Close | Se Tenir Proche at Alliance Française de Vancouver.

Claudia Goulet-Blais (b. 1996, Montréal) is a Vancouver-based photo installation artist whose practice centres on intergenerational kinship and performing for the camera with those close to her. Working with analog photography, ceramics, and archival imagery, she creates photographs and sculptural works reflecting relational dynamics through body language, and gesture. Her work investigates aging, shared memory, and the labour of care, engaging photography as image and object. She holds an MFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and has exhibited at FOFA Gallery, Unit_302, and Gallery 881, with residencies at NES (Skagastrond), Similkameen (Okanagan), and Griffin Art Projects (Vancouver).

Michelle Caron-Pawlowsky is a multidisciplinary artist from Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal working with installation, sound, images, sculpture, and text. They experiment with the material possibilities of images to examine themes of ritual and transformation, navigating the spaces between the real and mythic, the alive and not-alive. Currently completing an MFA at Concordia University, they have exhibited internationally, including at the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery (Montreal), Museo Spazzio Pubblico (Bologna), Saltspace Gallery (Glasgow), and Artch (Montreal), and have been an artist in residence at the Glasgow School of Art, Art Souterrain, Franconia Sculpture Park, and Atelier Silex.