{"id":4810,"date":"2024-08-29T15:51:04","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T15:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laserre.ca\/?post_type=artistes-recherche&#038;p=4810"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:52:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:52:29","slug":"marilou-leblanc-melania-maria-balmaceda-venegas","status":"publish","type":"artistes-recherche","link":"https:\/\/laserre.ca\/en\/artists-research\/marilou-leblanc-melania-maria-balmaceda-venegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Marilou Leblanc + Melania Maria Balmaceda Venegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-qz5qj5-e18d5ae0a26210d219539142e03d9705 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_section  avia-builder-el-first  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-4810'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-phyfwx-d8c0027bea302e46b8ccf3da4054ce6d '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h1><span class=\"ls-page-titre\">Marilou Leblanc + Melania Maria Balmaceda Venegas<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-m0dzvn8w-090d973e05eba2c520c8ba7297c705f7\">\n.avia-image-container.av-m0dzvn8w-090d973e05eba2c520c8ba7297c705f7 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-m0dzvn8w-090d973e05eba2c520c8ba7297c705f7 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-m0dzvn8w-090d973e05eba2c520c8ba7297c705f7 av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock  ls-home-top-image av-has-copyright av-copyright-always'   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-4799 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-4799 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Photo-Astrogrosses_recadree.jpg\" alt='' title='Photo Astrogrosses_recadr\u00e9e'  height=\"1920\" width=\"1284\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Photo-Astrogrosses_recadree.jpg 1284w, https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Photo-Astrogrosses_recadree-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Photo-Astrogrosses_recadree-689x1030.jpg 689w, https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Photo-Astrogrosses_recadree-768x1148.jpg 768w, https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Photo-Astrogrosses_recadree-1027x1536.jpg 1027w, https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Photo-Astrogrosses_recadree-1003x1500.jpg 1003w, https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Photo-Astrogrosses_recadree-471x705.jpg 471w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1284px) 100vw, 1284px\" \/><\/div><small class=\"avia-copyright\">Maxandre Cayhuela<\/small><\/div><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-oh3hup-edd98fba708f0b9e9dcd8a53ef93be7d '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock ls-font-50'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Melania and Marilou, hardened Astrogrosses, explore their shared fertile ground: the fat body, the space it occupies and its gravity. Playing with the astronomical universe, they use playfulness to stage memories, heaviness, dreams and rolls. In the epic tale of Astrogrosses, they seek to push back narrative dimensions through body, text and space.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-mciald-1f3ff540a993e7ee8e100bf3c1707434 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock ls-artiste-liens'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/malouwhite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram Marilou <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/melaniamariabalmacedavenegas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram Melania<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/main><!-- close content main element --><\/div><\/div><div id='av_section_2'  class='avia-section av-k64d35-15ddab1c5f3bae0564b2c750a4777dd9 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_section  avia-builder-el-last  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-4810'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-6vvgh-95d17a8b12c2fe28e08452e5bb68371b '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock ls-font-100'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h2 class=\"center\">Astrogrosses<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<div class='flex_column_table av-i4ojm9-fa8495a21414c3b2a6fe5e1a9c18a632 sc-av_one_full av-equal-height-column-flextable'>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-i4ojm9-fa8495a21414c3b2a6fe5e1a9c18a632\">\n.flex_column.av-i4ojm9-fa8495a21414c3b2a6fe5e1a9c18a632{\nwidth:100%;\nmargin-left:0;\n}\n#top .flex_column_table.av-equal-height-column-flextable.av-i4ojm9-fa8495a21414c3b2a6fe5e1a9c18a632 .av-flex-placeholder{\nwidth:0%;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-i4ojm9-fa8495a21414c3b2a6fe5e1a9c18a632 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_one_full  ls-font-28 first flex_column_table_cell av-equal-height-column av-align-top  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-1mpfy9-3a140549018a46cac56c433dd4858d00 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock ls-deux-colonnes-suivi'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Astrogrosses opens in a kindergarten classroom with a question: \u201cWhat&#8217;s your biggest dream?\u201d Around Marilou and Melania, dreams abound, but they struggle to imagine a future in their big bodies. Astrogrosses is the culmination of their dream of becoming astronauts and discovering their bodies in weightlessness. In this epic tale, two large women reclaim their bodies and explore how the perception of \u201cbig things\u201d changes with gravity. Both heroic and epic, this creation questions heaviness and lightness, greatness and tiniest, redefining the vision of the fat body in a parallel universe, at once scintillating and absurd.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><!--close column table wrapper. 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