Local Craftsmanship
Discover Canadian artists and cultural figures through the lens of Benoit Aquin.
Each portrait captures a meeting, an emotion, a fragment of history that together shape the country’s cultural mosaic.
These faces, displayed on the hotel’s walls, invite you on a journey that is both intimate and collective — one of talent, passion, and local creativity.
On every floor, a new discovery, a new source of inspiration, forming an artistic thread that connects our spaces and celebrates the richness of our community.
Robin Aubert -
Prolific actor, screenwriter, film director -
Benoit Aquin, 1998 - Montréal, Québec
Denis Arcand -
Quebec Academy award winning director -
Benoit Aquin, 1997 - Montréal, Québec
Danny Laferriere -
Canadian novelist and filmmaker, elected member of Academy Française -
Benoit Aquin, 1998 - Montréal, Québec
Les Colocs -
Important Quebec rock band -
Benoit Aquin, 1998 - Mile End, Montréal, Québec
Les Cowboys Fringants -
Celebrated Quebec rock band -
Benoit Aquin, 1999 - Montréal, Québec
Jean-Paul Riopelle -
Quebec painter and sculptor -
Benoit Aquin, 1998 - Ste-Marguerite du lac Masson, Québec
Biography - Benoit Aquin
For over thirty years, Benoit Aquin has been documenting the environmental and psychological transformations of our world. Winner of the Pictet Prize for his series The Chinese Dust Bowl, he has exhibited at the Canadian Museum of Photography, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, and the Rencontres d’Arles. In the 1990s, he also created portraits of Canadian and international cultural figures.
His work, rooted in the everyday lives of the communities he encounters, favors a slow pace and a poetic rhythm made of repetition, layering, and texture. His oeuvre reveals both our environmental and technological drift, and our enduring connection to nature. Created during a residency in Mexico, his series El Sendero continues his project Loving the Light, exploring a quest for spiritual and aesthetic transcendence.