The Glass City

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“The Glass City” is a groundbreaking public art project that was launched in Vancouver in November 2025. Imagined by Chrissy Cheung, founding member of the Painter8 art group, the project presents the members’ paintings on the windows of a newly built office space. In these empty spaces, the group has mounted the projectors to continuously present the images from 6pm to 9pm every night.

Showing reproductions of the paintings by David Belcourt, Chrissy Cheung, Melanie Garcia, Lizzie McCorquodale, Justin Ogilvie, Rafael Sottolichio, et Jessica Yeandle-Hingnell, the project “The Glass City” is an innovative solution to present the works of artists from across Canada. Randomly displaying images in the illuminated windows of the Adanac Street building, the project was very well received by the community and will likely be repeated in a new form very soon.

Read the latest press about The Glass City here:

https://thelasource.com/culture/2025/11/25/painter8s-the-glass-city-nightly-public-art/

https://montrealguardian.com/montreal-artist-rafael-sottolichio/

Le reliquaire

Bringing together twenty works from his new series “Sic Transit,” this exhibition unveils a previously unseen body of oil paintings, inspired by photographs captured by the artist over the past twenty-five years. Drawing from his personal archives, Rafael reveals fragments of intimacy: memories of travels, landscapes, portraits, and studio scenes. Resembling a private photo album, the collection evokes, with a certain melancholy, the passage of time and the ephemeral nature of things.

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Traces of Empire

Exhibition at FIMAV 2023

It is with great pleasure that I accepted the invitation to join the team of the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville for the 2023 edition. Produced for 40 years by Productions Plateforme, FIMAV’s mandate is to promote and disseminate new experimental and improvisational music, both from Quebec, Canada and around the world. The “Traces of Empire” exhibition brings together paintings from two different series, Wapizagonke and Empire, produced between 2017 and 2021. Looking forward to immerse myself in these atmospheres in the heart of the Bois-Francs region.

https://www.fimav.qc.ca/en/exhibit

Façades : Fenêtres sur ma ville (Facades : Windows On My City)

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Mural produced in the fall of 2021 following a call for projects as part of Tourisme Montréal’s centennial and produced by Mu. The mural is designed as a trompe l’oeil from which emerge dynamic and evocative shapes, amongst which recognizable icons of the city appear as icons. Façades : Fenêtres sur ma ville required more than 2000 hours of work, 25 different maquettes, 600 liters of paint for an area of 16,000 square feet.

Certainly one of my great painting adventures, Façades : Fenêtres sur ma ville was a challenge of endurance and concentration. Supported by a team of experienced corsairs, tossed about by the wind, exposed to the cold chill of November, we brought the ship back to port and earned our stripes as a team… even the sailor Michel de la Chenelière carried the brush high for the cause. 

Photos Olivier Bousquet