About
In my recent artistic production I question myself about social identity and network concepts between forms and human beings. I elaborate plans of establishing contact between people through performances that require the participants to wear clothing/sculptures, which I have created. All the suits I make are destined to be worn by more than one person at a time. The clothes connect literally between themselves or are simply sewn together. I am thus interested in various fabrics, various colours and systems of preparation to create interactive clothes.
My over-garments take on a life when worn by the participants who want to enter into the spirit of the game. The participants are found among friends or colleagues, artists or volunteers during multidisciplinary residences of creation or art events. In fact, interaction is very important in my approach; the clothes are only the materiality of my corpus of work; the principle meaning develops in the social and interactive activity between participants, themselves and my creations. It is through the realization of networking on a human scale that my art becomes alive, that our perception of the other people is changed. It is a peculiar territory where identities take on another sense, and are transformed little by little.
My work tends to take place in public spaces, so it can be integrated into an installation, a fashion show or a photo shooting. Humour and game spirit are very important elements in my art; it is my perception of the world that I intend to communicate. With these performances, I try to re-invent the world through the eyes of others, a society that seems to me often comic and unusual.
Scholarship
2011 Master in interdisciplinary art (MIA), Université Laval, Quebec, QC
2007 Bachelor in visual art, Université Laval, Quebec, QC
Exhibitions and principal art events
Solo
2011 Apparences, multidisciplinary poetic show, Printemps des poètes, Quebec, Quebec, Canada
2009 Mondes et singularités, parade of the sculptural monumental over-garments, Centre MATERIA, Quebec, Quebec
2008 Mondes et singularités, parade of the sculptural monumental over-garments, Konstepidemin, Goteborg, Sweden
2005 Trois mille ans d’errance, Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
2003 Visions inexactes, Latitude 53, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
2003 Impression préhistorique, The Works Festival, The Scotia bank, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Collective
2011 Interférences, poetry-video presented in different shops on St-Joseph street, Ex Muro arts publics, Québec, Québec
2010 33 ideas, Denver international airport, DIA art program & Colorado Art Ranch, Colorado, USA
2009 Saudade ou le manque habité, Le Moulin la Lorraine, Lac Etchemin, Quebec, Canada
2008 Realidades transitorias, La Casa das onze janelas, Belem, Brazil
2007 Les multiversaux revisités, Pique-nique 8, Parc Laurier, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2007 Visite libre, art exhibition of finissants in visual art, Visual Art School, Université Laval, Quebec,
2006 L’art sur le territoire, Projet Blanc, Viva! , International art action festival, Praxis arts actuels, Ste-Thérèse
2006 Monde que nous sommes, Art gallery of Desjardins Pavilion, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada
Art residencies
2011 Est-Nord-Est, St-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec, Canada- 2 months
2011 ARTErra, Tondela, Portugal – 1 month
2010 Caravansérail, Rimouski, Quebec, Canada – 1 month
2009 Colorado Art Ranch, Trinidad, Colorado, United States – 1 month
2008 Konstepidemin, Goteborg, Sweden, Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes – 3 months
Grants
2010 Grant for the realization of the show Apparences, Premiere Ovation littéraire, Quebec, QC
2009 Travelling grant, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec (CALQ) (2)
2008 Travelling grant, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ)
2007 Grant Louis Garneau, Université Laval, Quebec
2007 Grant La vigie 3-D, Université Laval, Quebec
2006 1er price category visual art, Gala des Muses, Université Laval, Quebec
Publications
2008 Slam ma muse, Anthology of slam poetry in Quebec city, André Marceau et Anne Peyrouse, Éditions Cornac
2007 Survêtement Multiversel, The fundamental catalogue, independant publication
Other implications & memberships
2010-2011 Administrator, administration counsil, artists center Regart, Lévis, Québec, Canada
2007-2008 Agent in museology, Centre MATERIA, Québec
Since 2010 Member of centre Caravasérail, Rimouski, Canada
Since 2009 Member of centre Le Lieu – art actuel, Québec, Canada
Since 2006 Member of la Chambre Blanche, Québec, Canada
Since 2005 Member of l’Oeil de poisson, Québec, Canada