My artistic process expands the field of visual art and digital media by exploring the interaction of sound, image and sculpture and its relationship to memory and history. It draws on phenomenological thought, the philosophy of transhumanism and the renewal of narrative approaches derived from cinema, literature and North American mythologies. I am interested in how new technology redefinese physical experience and generates mental states that question the frontier of human perception, identity and communication between the individual and society. Each project expresses a paradox between the self and his or her environment, beingness and the virtual world, in addition to offering a vision of ‘reality’ that is at once incomplete and transcendent.
I was born in Ville-Marie, Canada, in 1978. I reside and work in Montreal, Canada. I hold a Master’s degree from the École des Beaux-arts de Bordeaux in France as well as a double Ph.D. from the Université du Québec à Montréal in Canada and the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in France. My work has appeared in numerous exhibitions (around 40 in the past 10 years) including the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montreal, Canada), the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Québec City, Canada), the CAPC Bordeaux Museum of Contemporary Art (Bordeaux, France), Location One (New York, U.S.A.) and Asahi Art Square (Tokyo, Japan).
Marked by Sound Waves (ongoing) focuses on the embodiment of sound, voice and the intricate overlap between computing and the human body. The work reproduces a series of guitar-shaped objects sculpted by the gestures and the marks left by a virtual performer (musician or sculptor). The title of each sculpture makes references to cult songs and groups in the history of music associated with the expression of transcendence and spirituality. The use of light and colour, like the distortion of shapes and volumes, are relayed to an imaginary and multi-sensorial space in which the senses of sight, hearing and touch are intertwined. Each title has missing or shaded letters testifying to the evanescence of a musical experience of time. On the analog level, the arc-shaped objects left below each instrument can appear as a sign of what has been lost or persists in memory, such as an action, event or state of being.
Replaying the Sound of Thunder (ongoing) is comprised of prints on stretched fabric, supported by twisted aluminum frames, all of variables shapes. Each side of the images shows stormy skies traversed by lightning effects. At this point, distorted images may be read as a result and effect of the force of electromagnetic fields in the air, or the sound of thunder, which alludes to an inaudible, but energy-charged, soundspace. The work opens on to the transcendent or spiritual sphere, as it appears to transmit reverberations coming from a world altered by the replay of volumes and light. Ultimately, the installation provides an exploration of a landscape above our heads, thus reflecting a tension between humans, nature, science and culture.
Crash in the Continuum of Perception, on the Road Experience Reframed (ongoing) uses and redefines images depicting parts of burning vehicles after a crash. Culled from the web, these images reference road accidents that occurred on US territory. The work offers a sort of virtual journey through North American mythologies ranging from individual freedom, the quest for meaning, speed and ecstasy that resonates in a contemporary society seeking to break away from linearity time. In its installation dimensions, each object introduces a spatio-temporal variation that prompts a distortion of the physical and psychological perception of the “crash” event, as a temporal suspension resulting in a momentary interruption of the course of everyday life. The work thus touches upon the internal and external borders of human perception such as extra-sensorial feeling, out-of-body experience, embodied memory and trauma, the reach for a utopian or post human body.
I was born in Ville-Marie, Canada, in 1978. I reside and work in Montreal, Canada. I hold a Master’s degree from the École des Beaux-arts de Bordeaux in France as well as a double Ph.D. from the Université du Québec à Montréal in Canada and the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in France. My work has appeared in numerous exhibitions (around 40 in the past 10 years) including the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montreal, Canada), the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Québec City, Canada), the CAPC Bordeaux Museum of Contemporary Art (Bordeaux, France), Location One (New York, U.S.A.) and Asahi Art Square (Tokyo, Japan).
Marked by Sound Waves (ongoing) focuses on the embodiment of sound, voice and the intricate overlap between computing and the human body. The work reproduces a series of guitar-shaped objects sculpted by the gestures and the marks left by a virtual performer (musician or sculptor). The title of each sculpture makes references to cult songs and groups in the history of music associated with the expression of transcendence and spirituality. The use of light and colour, like the distortion of shapes and volumes, are relayed to an imaginary and multi-sensorial space in which the senses of sight, hearing and touch are intertwined. Each title has missing or shaded letters testifying to the evanescence of a musical experience of time. On the analog level, the arc-shaped objects left below each instrument can appear as a sign of what has been lost or persists in memory, such as an action, event or state of being.
Replaying the Sound of Thunder (ongoing) is comprised of prints on stretched fabric, supported by twisted aluminum frames, all of variables shapes. Each side of the images shows stormy skies traversed by lightning effects. At this point, distorted images may be read as a result and effect of the force of electromagnetic fields in the air, or the sound of thunder, which alludes to an inaudible, but energy-charged, soundspace. The work opens on to the transcendent or spiritual sphere, as it appears to transmit reverberations coming from a world altered by the replay of volumes and light. Ultimately, the installation provides an exploration of a landscape above our heads, thus reflecting a tension between humans, nature, science and culture.
Crash in the Continuum of Perception, on the Road Experience Reframed (ongoing) uses and redefines images depicting parts of burning vehicles after a crash. Culled from the web, these images reference road accidents that occurred on US territory. The work offers a sort of virtual journey through North American mythologies ranging from individual freedom, the quest for meaning, speed and ecstasy that resonates in a contemporary society seeking to break away from linearity time. In its installation dimensions, each object introduces a spatio-temporal variation that prompts a distortion of the physical and psychological perception of the “crash” event, as a temporal suspension resulting in a momentary interruption of the course of everyday life. The work thus touches upon the internal and external borders of human perception such as extra-sensorial feeling, out-of-body experience, embodied memory and trauma, the reach for a utopian or post human body.
