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Valentine Alma

Valentine Alma

Honoring bodies, spirits, and community through art, ritual & colors.

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2205 Parthenais
Tiohtia:ke, Montréal, QC , Canada
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All artworks Property of Valentine Alma @All Right Reserved 2026

Photo Credits: Carlos Mao, Catherine Simard, Océane Leclair & Alex Tran

Play Bodies / Corps-Raccords

‘Play Bodies/Corps-Raccords’ is a social ecosystem of thirty partial oil portraits assembled around a wooden carousel built by Alyag Malkhassian, which can be spun to create 225 different combinations. 
 

Our bodies, beyond their objectified representations, are hidden from public view. We rely on faces to tell the stories of our origins. By removing this first identifier, I invite us to contemplate how much of our stories are woven underneath it. This reframing of portraiture is shaped around community, turning away from the capitalistic dogma of hyper-individualism and towards interconnectedness. I want to center the body as the common territory from which we experience life through a complex web of relationships enacted from and towards autonomous flesh. The painting sessions were organized around a structure of consent and communication inspired by queer ethics in an effort to shift the traditional dynamics of power between model and painter.

In inviting the public into the piece and giving it a pivotal role in its display, I seek to create a participative approach to this exploration of liberatory possibilities, showcasing bodies that are rarely if ever seen. Faceless, nameless, clothesless, they reveal their essence beyond categorization, meeting each other in their shared vulnerabilities. This circle invokes a queerness of indiscriminate relationships, unpoliced intimacies, dissolving the boundaries that separate us in order to weave communities rooted in care, sensibility and a profound respect for all living bodies. 

Life, Death, Life

2025

While on a residency at Ferme Granite, thanks to the support of ARTEA, I fell in love with a small island on a pond. It felt sacred, the kind of places that remind you that everything is vibrantly alive.

I wanted to honour that space by creating a gateway, a space of connection - a house with no walls. I found old doors and windows in the barn, and went in search of beauty, painting my encounters; plants, insects, skulls from a cow cemetery…

Then the wind brought down one of my windows overnight, and I glued it back together. This cemented my feeling that this tryptich was about the cycle of life, death and rebirth that shape and unshape and reshape us all.

The paintings were installed on the island, left to meet the weather and transform along with the land.

All pictures captures on film by me!

Nature's Pillars

2025

While on residency at Ferme Granite, thanks to the support of ARTEA, I fell in love with this small island on the pond. It felt like a sacred space, the kind of places that make you believe in magic, that remind you that the world is alive. I wanted to create a gateway between the wild and the built, a home with no walls. 

Using old doors and windows found in the barn, I went around the territory, painting what I found; plants, insects, bones from a cow cemetery nearby… honouring the cycles of death and rebirth that shape and unshape us all.

All these photos were shot on film, by me.

Joules and I were talking about the lack of overlap between our crafts : visual art & music. How come most concerts put so little thought into aesthetics? 

We decided to create a set design that could be brought easily to any gig. Joules built some aluminium stretchers, easy to install and deinstall, and I painted two pillars of raw canvas - inspired by the pillars that frame the High Priestess in the Tarot, but where the sacred space would be nature, upheld by biodiversity.

These photos come from their first outing at Place de la Création - taken by Vaentral & FoPhotos.