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Genevive Lebleu is a multidisciplinary artist from Qubec City and is currently based in Montral. She graduated with distinction from Concordia University in Studio Arts (2016) and completed a semester at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem (Israel). Her work was featured in various events, exhibitions and festivals in Montral (Le Vidographe, GIV [Groupe Intervention Vido], Eastern Bloc, Perte de Signal, Festival SOIR, Galerie Galerie) but also abroad-in Israel and in Indiana where she attended her first artist residency in August 2017. Her work in stop motion animation was featured on national television on CBC Arts The Exhibitionist in November 2018. Genevive has also collaborated with other visual artists such as Montral-based duo Pnlope et Chlo.
Fraught friends, old feuds, teatime, and suburban backyard gardening, all turn beautifully, nauseatingly, weird in Genevieve LeBleu's - Weeding. Embittered chain-smoking Beth, Maureen, Martha, and others transform a seemingly normal day into a mutating, murderous, timeless story. Hypnotic drawings of roots, vines, and alien blooms, engulf bodies building much worrying wonder about the nature of friendship. Genevieve's wicked creativity truly delights in this twisted trippy garden tale of women's lives - inappropriately relatable, satisfyingly creepy, awkward giggle? I love this book. -Elisabeth Belliveau, creator of One Year in America With bursting colours and vivid visages, Weeding is a biting and funny graphic novel. -Shrapnel Magazine What makes Weeding so powerful, ultimately, is that it uses body horror to address social anxieties in the best possible way. --Broken Frontier
