Seripop

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Seripop refers to the art duo Chloe Lum and Yannick Desranleau, who have collaborated on album covers, prints, book illustrations, and installations. [1] [2] [3] The name Seripop is short for Serigraphie Populaire, French for "Popular Screenprinting". [2] Seripop is based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. [1]

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Biographies

Lum and Desranleau met in the underground noise music scene of Montreal, eventually forming their first band Electric End. They began making their hand-printed posters as a way to attract people to their shows, [2] but then eventually dropped out of art school in the early 2000s to make tour posters for six bands' entire tours, resulting in 25 to 45 posters for each band. [1] Both are graduates of Montreal's Concordia University. [1] The two are also members of noise rock quartet, AIDS Wolf, [4] which has since stopped playing shows. [2]

Exhibitions

What Do Stones Smell Like in the Forest? – Latitude 53, Edmonton, Canada [5]

MAC Collection: Chloë Lum & Yannick Desranleau – Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Canada. Curator: Marie-Eve Beaupré. [6]

The Face Stayed East and the Mouth Went West (elements) at Galerie Hugues Charbonneau [2]

Certainty: Two Times Not Really at Struts Gallery [3]

Awards

They won the 2007 Juno Award for CD/DVD Artwork Design of the Year for designing the cover of The Looks album by MSTRKRFT.

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References

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