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ARTIST STATEMENT
My paintings act as nomadic processes aimed at questioning an hyper-sedentarized society. They articulate around the sampling of nomadic fragments transposed in the shape of pictorial travel journals, implying a more deeply rooted connection to displacement and the road travelled.
Leaving is bliss in this sedentary world...
Humans are first and foremost beings of movement, nomads from their origin and for the better part of their history. Only recently, as the industrial revolution unfolded, were they required to become growingly settled in order to create a massive consumerist workforce, thus sustaining it’s means of production. This revolution having perverted the interaction with movement, mobility is in large part attributed to consumerism and therefore more superficial and static than ever. Despite mass tourism and the ability to travel vast distances easily, this ultimate crystallization of sedentarity is the source of a great social impasse where a connection to the authentic experience is growingly lacking. Aseptization, isolation, quest for security, consumerism and comfort now dictate the western social paradigm.
The great responsibility behind mobility...
In the perspective of countering this new mobility paradigm, my work takes the role of an ethnological manifest to movement by establishing a direct, deep rooted contact to transiency. The end result is a perpetual disposition to departure; a change of perspective maintaining an opened breach within a sedentary time and space. My work ultimately hopes to contribute to shifting the hyper-sedentarized paradigm to a more levelled relationship between nomadic nature and a sedentary lifestyle.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Born in Montreal on January 1st, 1980
Lives and works in Montreal
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2012 Cultural Contact V. Back to you, Where all began,
Group show, Rome, Italy
2012 AAF New York, New York, USA
2012 Cultural Contact III, In the labyrinth, Group show, Alatri, Italy
2012 AAF London, London, England
2011 Edinbourgh Art Fair, Edinbourgh, Scotland
2011 Espace Kalibre, group show, Montreal, Canada
2011 Affordable Art Fair London, London, England
2011 L’Atelier Les Tirroirs, group show, Montreal, Canada
2011 La Nuit Blanche, Espace Cercle Carré, group show,
Montreal, Canada
2010 Art Sydney, art fair, Sydney, Australia
2010 Routes et Déroutes, Galerie Dentaire, solo exhibition,
Montreal, Canada
2010 Journées de la Culture, Espace Cercle Carré, group show,
Montreal, Canada
2010 Affordable Art Fair New York, New York, United States
2009 Art Raw Gallery, group show, New York, United States
2009 Spasm, performance, Société des Arts Technologiques (SAT),
Montreal, Canada
2009 Kérozène Gallery, duo exhibition, Belgo building, Montreal, Canada
2007 I am shy, Ex-Elac Gallery, group show, Lausanne, Switzerland
2006 Street Camp, Yves Laroche Gallery, group show, Montreal
2005 Festival International Montréal en Arts, performance, Montreal
2001 Rendez-Vous des Jeunes Créateurs en Art, Marché Bonsecours,
group show, Montreal, Canada
2000 Intercollegiate exhibition of visual arts, Old Montreal Cegep,
group show, Montreal, Canada
EXPERIENCE AND IMPLICATION
2011 - présent Member of the administrative board of Espace Cercle Carré
2010 - présent Member of RAAV
2009 - présent Member of the Lattakeuse Dimage collective
1999 - 2000 Member of the Marmelade collective
COLLECTIONS
Momenta Art, New York
Private collections
PRESS
CATALOGUES
Street Camp, exhibition catalogue, Yves Laroches Galerie, 2006, Montreal
ART BOOKS
1999 Marmelade de Betteraves, collective art book, Montreal
1998 Marmelade d’Ananas, collective art book, Montreal
ARTICLES
CAPUTO, Pascal, “À l’interstice du sédentaire et du nomade”,
Kalibre, Montreal, November 23rd 2009
MEINNA, “Nomadisme Urbain”,
Morgan Gray collection, Montreal, September 8th 2008
DOYON, Frédérique, “Les graffitis épatent la galerie”,
Le Devoir, Montreal, June 19th 2006, front page
MEUNIER, Marc, “La chute du mur banal”,
Just Magazine, Montreal, september 2005, pages 50-51
EDUCATION
1999-2001 A.E.C. Graphic design, Salette College
2000 A.E.C. Illustration, Salette College
1997-1999 D.E.C. Visual Arts, Saint-Laurent Cegep