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"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."

Journal of practise, MB

Artist statement

My creative journey intertwines art, narrative, and deep ecology within a transdisciplinary framework of science and research. I explore the circularity and flow of matter, living entities, and objects, tracing their transformations across human, natural, and geological timescales. Through a speculative lens, I engage in a co-creative process with AI, biotechnologies, and community, drawing inspiration from myths, spectral figures, and posthuman philosophies.

My focus is on revitalizing disrupted natural landscapes, highlighting the synergy between social aspirations and resilience in the renewal of rural and peri-urban environments. Each project emerges from the essence of anthropized spaces — industrial, coastal, or subterranean. I explore thoses realms to gather ideas and visions of possible pasts and futures, collecting materials, sounds, and traces that tell their own stories. I then breathe new life into these remnants by crafting materials from residual matter, employing 3D digital fabrication, and transforming sounds into tangible forms. This approach blurs the boundaries between physical and digital dimensions, reimagining past experiences and addressing  environmental challenges, or envisioning new ways of living between human and non-human entities.

Themes of ecosystem mutation, species symbiosis, industrial ecology, climate migration, and mobile architecture flow through my work, all viewed through an ecocentric perspective that transcends human confines.

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 50 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. 

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.

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