Sika Valmé

Artist-in-Residence | July 2024

Sika Valmé is an artist driven by culture, education and innovation. Her work is conceptual in nature, taking inspiration from an eclectic range of sources, and presents as a nuanced, cross-disciplinary composition of visuals, sound, and language.

A contemporary Creole-Canadian musician, illustrator, and creative director, Valmé was born and raised in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Having been established in Quebec since 2001, she now shares her time between Montreal, Vancouver and Mexico City. A reflection of her many migrations, Sika’s creations illuminates elements of her diasporic journey through novel approaches to performance and exhibition.

This unique position inspires a wide, modern audience from various cultural backgrounds, including members of the 2SLGBTQ+ community, and the Afro-Caribbean diaspora. Sika’s most recent body of work, Erosion Eksperyans (Immersive audio-visual performance, illustrations, animations, EP), was launched in October, 2022 at the PHI Center in Montreal, Quebec. In addition to her many artistic pursuits, Sika is an amateur tennis competitor and lover of kites.

Erosion Eksperyans | in 4DSOUND

Erosion Eksperyans (25 mins~) explores the deconstruction and reimagination of Sika Valmé’s recent immersive audio-visual body of work. It includes taking the music component from her featured EP, and re-contextualizing it for a 4DSOUND space at Lobe Studio, as well as reexamining the original thesis behind the creation of the work.

Here, Valmé observes in what ways the spatial, performative, and auditory-receptive context of a body of musical compositions can alter or reinforce its meaning.