Guillaume Brisson-Darveau (Canada)

Artist Statement/ Biography

Guillaume Brisson-Darveau is particularly interested in how we negotiate our relationship to the physical and social environment. By creating ephemeral sculptural objects that he inscribes or performs in selected environments, he explores the tensions between strangeness and the familiar, playing with surprise or relationships of scale. His approach involves the creation of objects made mostly from rudimentary, recycled, and inexpensive materials, such as cardboard and paper. His latest projects have been heavily influenced by a reflection on the hybrid body, the works emerging from this work being at the crossroads of fashion design and sculptural or architectural forms.

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Guillaume Brisson-Darveau is a Canadian artist who lives in Tiohtià:ke / Montreal. His work has been presented in Canada and internationally, notably at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo - Universidad de Chile (2018, Chile), as part of Art Souterrain (2017, Canada) and the NEoN Digital Arts Festival (2016, UK). He has carried out numerous artist residencies, among others at cheLA Centro Hipermediático Experimental Latinoamericano (Argentina, 2019), Atelier Mondial (Switzerland, 2018) and Est-Nord-Est (2016, Canada). In recent years, he has developed a practice of sculpture with a performative and in situ aspect. He explores the poetic and sometimes playful potential of the sculptural object, through its fragility, versatility, and monumentality.