EXHIBITION

Jean-Marc Vallée: Mixtape is an exhibition that offers visitors a multimedia and sound journey into the memory and work of the director for whom emotion was a rich territory, lived, felt and expressed through music.


Drawing on the testimonies of his collaborators and those close to him, inspired by his love of music, the exhibition paints a portrait of the artist and explores the legacies he left behind.

Music was the starting point for all the projects of Jean-Marc Vallée, and his greatest source of inspiration for his films, his characters, his dreams and his life. Mixtapes were an essential part of his creative process. He shared them with friends and collaborators, and created them specifically for his future creations.

Mixtape is composed of five installations and a sound environment that accompanies and envelops the public along the way. These different spaces highlight a number of key moments in Vallée's career, but are above all an invitation to delve into the artist's mind and music, to discover what inspired him in his daily life, what influenced him in his creation, and what was translated to the big screen.

Director, screenwriter, editor, producer and music lover, Jean-Marc Vallée, was born in Montreal on March 9, 1963, and died at Berthier-sur-Mer, Quebec, on December 25 2021, at the age of 58.

His body of work, comprised mainly of feature films produced in Quebec and in the U.S., was recognized the world over: Black List (1995), Los Locos (1997), C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005), The Young Victoria (2009); Café de Flore (2011), Dallas Buyer’s Club (2013), Wild (2014), and Demolition (2015). He also made several short films such as Stereotypes (1992), Les fleurs magiques (1995) and Les mots magiques (1998) and directed the outstanding television series Big Little Lies (2017-2019) and Sharp Objects (2018). A Companion of the Order of Canada (arts & letters) and an Officer in the National Order of Quebec, Jean-Marc received numerous accolades throughout his career, including several Genie, Iris and Emmy Awards, as well as a distinguished honour, awarded posthumously, from the University of Montreal, where he studied filmmaking.