Artistic Approach
The essence of my artistic approach is transmitted through set-ups, in situ works, sculptures and photos that suggest ambiguities, subterfuges or intimate relationships. My work is based on a desire to explore matter and its possibilities. Chosen for their physical qualities, formal or symbolic, the materials that I use surprise, amuse and have a reference function. My fascination for the materials and their intrinsic qualities make me think and rethink nature and our way of looking at it. I am not talking here about nature per se, its trees and its plains, but about our way of living in it, of perceiving it. My work draws attention to social behaviors vis-à-vis the essence of things in a relationship of ``to see`` and to ``perceive`` through an intuitive and amusing bias.
Bridging the gap between the work and the spectator, as a demander, I thus create works having an organic and technological facture. These highly seductive, dreamlike visual propositions suggest an ambiguity and an intimate relationship. By this aestheticism, I wish to recreate sensations suggesting the unforeseeable, or exciting the senses, and incite pleasure, which resides in the intensity that life generates in the present. My work is based on all types of meetings, exchanges, observations and physical or scientific wonders. I let myself be fascinated by what man shapes and un-shapes, by what he lives with and what lives within him. This is translated into the creation of objects, spaces or images, integrated in social interventions or in devices that could move within diverse public spaces. That is when I invite the participation of the spectator/actor by suggesting to him another way of seeing things.
Work produced during SSW Residency
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Schooling
2003
Masters in visual arts, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi.
1999
Bachelor’s Degree in multi-disciplinary art,environmental practice,Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Personal Exhibitions
2008
Œuvres sur toile (Works on canvas), Circa, Montreal.
2008
Diversion, Plein Sud, Longueuil, Québec. 2007
Œuvres sur toile (Works on canvas), Galerie Verticale, Laval, Québec.
2006
Bas-Relief,Centre d’exposition Mont-Laurier
2005
Phréatique (phreatic), Le Lobe, Chicoutimi, Québec.
2005
Bas-relief, Vaste et Vague,Carleton,Québec.
2002
Fantasme de Calvitie
(Wishful Fantasy on
Baldness), Maison
de la Culture Côte-
des-Neiges,Montreal.
2002
Fantasme de Calvitie
(Wishful Fantasy on
Baldness,Langage Plus,
Alma,Québec.
1999
Présent Stretché
(Extended Present),
L'Oeuvre de l'Autre,
Chicoutimi, Québec.
Public Exhibitions
2005
Place des Arts, fleeting sculpture in the basin of the esplanade,Montréal. Social Projects and Artistic Happenings
2005
La sporadique
(Sporadic),exhibition
by the collective
Pique-Nique and other
invited artists.
2004
Ateliers Ouverts (Open Studios),305 Bellechasse, Montreal
2004
Pique-nique, in situ art, Lac des Castors, Montreal
2003
Deux jours pour un convoi (Two Days for a Convoy,305 Bellechasse, Montreal
2003
Lesféerie(Fairytales), happening, Mont Saint-Hilaire.
2002
Événement Art bord
(Art First Happening),
Jonquière, Montreal.
2001
Événement Art Bord (Art First Happening), Jonquière.
2001
Événement Tissus
Urbains (Urban Fabric
Happening), sponsored
by CATQ,
2000
Projet Pompon (Pompon
Project),
in conjunction with
the children of the
Espace Virtuel,
Chicoutimi,«Canada.
2000
Le fil du temps (Time span),
Chicoutimi,Québec. Collective Exhibitions 2006
Édition Happening,
Today’s art happening
in Saint-Hyacinthe.
2006
Biennale nationale de
sculpture
contemporaine
(National Two-Yearly
Celebration of
contemporary
sculpture),
2005
Musée National de
Niamey (
sculptor
representing the
the 5th Games of the
Francophonie.
2003
Dare-Dare Dépôt, benefit evenement,
Jardin d’artifice
(
in collaboration with
Jérôme Fortin, Musée
Régional de (
Rimouski, Canada.
1999
Peut-on rire du singe
(Can we Laugh at the
Monkey),
Espace
Virtuel, Commissioner
Bruno
Tremblay,
Residency
2007
Residency,
Atelier
d’Estampe
Sagamie (Sagamie Art
Printing)Alma, Canada
2005
Lobe
5-week Residency
ending with the
Phreatic exhibition,
2004
Project within the
framework of residency
of artists from
Alsace-Quebec
ACA/FRAC/Langage
Plus/CEEAC and the
DRAC.
Grants and
competitions
2008
Grant from the
2008
Grant from Canada Arts Council, research and creation 2005
Silver Medalist, at
the 5th Games of the
Francophonie, Niger.
2005
Grant from the
2004
Grant from the