+++Artist of the month / June 2026+++

Frédérique Chassé (they/them/she/he) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice is primarily focused on painting, or even image-making. The formal elements of painting—color, value, texture, spatial organization—are generally her starting point. She thus creates formal spaces from which she explores the pictorial form that abstraction can take. It is at this point that stories are born. In this way, the canvas becomes a space for play and storytelling in which new myths are recounted.
Her approach is, in her own words, "petit-cochon-va", meaning humorous, grotesque, bordering on the indecent. Hypersensitive, she makes her work a fictionalized and undecipherable diary, in which one can recognize oneself, a relational imprint that

+++Artist of the month / June 2026+++

Frédérique Chassé (they/them/she/he) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice is primarily focused on painting, or even image-making. The formal elements of painting—color, value, texture, spatial organization—are generally her starting point. She thus creates formal spaces from which she explores the pictorial form that abstraction can take. It is at this point that stories are born. In this way, the canvas becomes a space for play and storytelling in which new myths are recounted.
Her approach is, in her own words, "petit-cochon-va", meaning humorous, grotesque, bordering on the indecent. Hypersensitive, she makes her work a fictionalized and undecipherable diary, in which one can recognize oneself, a relational imprint that is both sexy and abject.

Frédérique Chassé has presented her performance-installation-pictorial work in the exhibitions *Toujours aux aguets/Always on the lookout* (Galerie Deschênes, 2025), *Entre quatre murs (mitoyens)* (2020 and 2021, 6919 Marconi), at the RELIEF evenings (2017), at Galerie UQAM (2016), at Diagonale (2016), and at Gham & Dafe (2015), as well as in numerous alternative art venues.

She has also participated in several collective projects, including the docufiction *Poland in Quebec* (Axenéo7, 2025), the performance *The Summoning of Tinnitus/A Quiet Life Under the Ground* (La Chapelle, 2025), and the performance *Là/dans la convergence…*, presented as part of OFFTA (Fonderie Darling, 2019). They have done several concerts with Presqu’île, notably as part of MUTEK (2021) and Oxygen (2021).