At the center of Leblanc-Roberge’s art practice are images – taken with a camera, printed, projected, bound as a book, sent by mail, screenshotted, wrapped around objects, or carefully placed in a room. How we relate to and occupy the built structures and landscapes we live in are core questions in Leblanc-Roberge’s projects. In her work she plays with trompe l’oeil and camouflage techniques, double-takes and shifting point of views as a method for making the experience of the work an activity in which the whole body is involved. Her most recent book “Table Book” and film “As the hour turns blue” stem from an extensive research project about waiting and waiting rooms, weaving together personal narratives, fictions, documents, and coincidences.
Evelyne Leblanc-Roberge grew up in a small francophone coastal village in eastern Canada. She completed her BFA in photography at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada) and her MFA in electronic integrated arts at Alfred University (Alfred, New York). She has received multiple grants from Canada Council for the Arts and participated in artist-in-residence programs across continents, including Visual Studies Workshop (Rochester, New York), La Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris, France), AIR 3331 Arts Chiyoda (Tokyo, Japan), SIM (Reykjavik, Iceland), and Arteles (Haukijärvi, Finland) where she produced multifaceted projects published as books, videos, zines, exhibitions, performances, and/or ephemeral installations. She is currently an Associate Professor of Art and Lens Based Media at the University of Rochester.
