
"My artistic process combines art, narrative, and ecology to craft alternative realities within specific contexts. It explores and speculates on environmental futures while reinterpreting the memories and histories of lands affected by exploitation, industrial activity, restoration, or redevelopment of anthropogenic sites."
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Journal of practise, MB
Artist statement
My artistic practice is grounded in the field of environmental art, drawing on an aesthetic of repair and an ethic of care, where creation becomes an attentive gesture toward disturbed environments, residual materials, and marginalized forms of life. For over fifteen years, I have developed an interdisciplinary approach to sculpture, installation, and object-based art, at the crossroads of ecosophy, digital technologies, and situated narratives. My works are anchored in affected contexts—industrial wastelands, decommissioned mining sites, burned forests—which I consider active matrices, carriers of material memory, buried stories, and latent forces of regeneration.
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My approach explores narrativity as a mode of meaning-making that emerges through matter, form, and context. I do not approach narration as a linear construct, but as a weaving of sensitive relations between objects, territories, temporalities, and imaginaries. Each project becomes a space of resonance between the artistic gesture, the transformative dynamics of matter—organic, mineral, sonic, or digital—and the possible becomings of anthropogenic sites. Matter itself participates in the writing: it bears the traces of life, history, and alteration, but also of speculative narratives and latent futures.
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Through in situ practices, immersive installations, and generative processes, I conceive forms that I call “ephemeral architectures” or “intelligent ecosystems,” carrying both critical and sensitive potential. By engaging tools such as digital fabrication, 3D simulation, artificial intelligence, and biotechnologies, I develop biosourced, reactive, or hybrid materials, opening the way to experimental and collaborative processes. This transdisciplinary research-creation practice interweaves visual arts, natural sciences, engineering, and deep ecology within a logic of co-creation with both human and more-than-human environments—that is, with non-human living beings (animals, plants, fungi, microorganisms), but also with material entities (geological, atmospheric, or technological) with whom we share a world in the making.
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My approach is rooted in speculative thought and a poetics of the Symbiocene, where cohabitation between humans and more-than-human entities becomes both an ethical and aesthetic condition. It draws as much from environmental humanities as from emerging technologies, allowing for the emergence of hybrid, critical, and ecopoetic narratives. In this sense, my practice engages a constant dialogue between alteration and regeneration, disappearance and reinvention—inviting us to rethink our relationship to the living, to the materials we transform, and to the environments we inhabit and help bring into being.
Bio
My path began with a deep immersion into art and and research, earning dual doctorates—one from the University of Quebec in Montreal in Practices and Study of Art, and another from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in Arts and Musicology. Over the past 15 years, my artistic work has been showcased in more than 60 international exhibitions, from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in Canada to Forum des Images and Rencontres Internationales in Paris, and from Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin to Asahi Art Square in Tokyo.
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Since 2015, I’ve been active in both academic and community projects. I founded and lead the Intersectoral 3D Printing Laboratory for the Arts, Natural Sciences, and Engineering at the University of Quebec, where I promote collaboration between universities, industry, and cultural communities. I am also a member of Hexagram, an international network dedicated to media arts, design, technology, and digital culture.
In the past seven years, I have secured research grants ($1,500,000) awarded by institutions such as the Faculty of Social Sciences, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Quebec Fund for Research on Society and Culture (FRQSC), and the Johan-R-Evans Leaders Fund, have supported the development of new eco-materials and innovative artistic practices addressing pressing environmental issues like climate change. Through these efforts, my work embodies a commitment to blending art, science, technology, and community engagement. Each project demonstrates my dedication to exploring new frontiers and contributing to both artistic and societal progress.