Opening: October 10, 2025, in the presence of the artist

Youth Room: Free admission at all times

Samantha Duchemin’s works are back at the Musée de la Côte-Nord for a sixth exhibition. They are on display in the Youth Room and can be viewed free of charge at any time.

The exhibition KASSINU MAMU is a continuation of the previous exhibition, Fleuris-nous. The latter, held in 2022-2023, featured 20 portraits inspired by the Innu people, created using dried petals as pigment and India ink on handmade Japanese paper. For KASSINU MAMU, Samantha Duchemin has reproduced these iconic characters, this time using oil paint applied with a palette knife on rag backgrounds reminiscent of the tundra and the ancestral territory of the Innu people. This colorful exhibition promises to be surprising, with its eighteen 75 x 45 cm canvases.

Her approach highlights humanity and the relationships it maintains with its fellow human beings, animals, and nature, but also values such as sharing and gentleness, which she seeks to convey through her works. Her recent production was created between 2023 and 2025.

« A character, a place… the tundra… where a people almost extinct, almost scattered by the white man, takes its place in space-time. It stands where the first peoples have always inhabited the territory.

The Elder belongs to Mother Earth as Mother Earth belongs to the Universe. She is an integral part of his life, and his survival depends on her bounty.

This series of 18 oil paintings, influenced by the Innu people, is a study of characters painted with a palette knife on a background drawn with a cloth, a reminder of the forest fires that contribute to the renewal of the earth’s bounty.»

Samantha Duchemin