Bio
I live and work in Montreal, where I completed my master’s degree in visual arts at UQAM. My work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Quebec, Canada, Europe and Asia. My sculptures and paintings are featured in public collections, including those at the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec and in the Laval Art Collection, as well as in private collections.
Artist’s Statement
As a multidisciplinary artist, I explore the tension between what moves us and what eludes us in appearances – the “shadow side” that we try to conceal. My work draws on a fascination with the generosity of the world around me: I collect fragments, gather cast-offs, but natural and industrial. Without fully grasping their magnitude, these precious “little nothings” make their way into my installation sculptures to create amalgams that tend to have a tragicomic air.
My installations unfold as a continuous, circular flow, mirroring a thought that escapes discursive logic. This movement is rooted first in a presence and the careful listening that guides my expression. Within the space, each element is part of a suspended state of being — a subjective fragment of an inner world, a way of appearing socially through a polysemy of shapes and materials.
In this exploration, I enjoy playing with codes and transgressing our perceptions of the tangible world. The established dualities of heavy and light, hard and soft, dark and luminous are frequently blurred. The inexpressible can emerge from improbable encounters between the organic and the mechanical, triggering shifts in meaning. Feelings of familiarity and strangeness are revealed, evoking the body, without ever directly representing it.
Attuned to our ecological emergency, I glean materials from different sources to create poetic shifts in which their origins remain identifiable. Through encounters between the industrial object and artisanal craftsmanship, I attempt to circumvent the hierarchy of materials and offer a different way of seeing.
This reflection on the object and space carries over into my performance practice, whether collective or solo. I pursue a quest for authentic presence through simple gestures. In solo work, I use manufactured objects and familiar, everyday items without altering them. Through movements that are both intimate and distanced from my body, I create shifts in meaning, diverting objects from the original functions.
Overall, I play with referents in such a way that movement, impermanence and the fleeting nature of things lie at the heart of my practice. Through these shifts – from installation sculpture to the body in movement – I explore our relationship with the real and how meaning is constructed.