+++Artist of the month / July 2026+++

Founder of the collective Les Mêmes-Cacaïstes and of a temporary art space called Espace des Mêmes, I have been working in the contemporary art scene for about ten years. I graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual and Media Arts from UQAM in 2016. Collaboration and sharing with my peers are essential to my artistic journey. My interdisciplinary practice revolves around painting, collage, video, music, writing, and photography. All these mediums allow me a form of spiritual and poetic meditation that could be described as visual haikus. I seek to distinguish myself from the omnipresent flow of images by presenting images that are closer to dreams, reveries, and comics! For me, a relevant image is

+++Artist of the month / July 2026+++

Founder of the collective Les Mêmes-Cacaïstes and of a temporary art space called Espace des Mêmes, I have been working in the contemporary art scene for about ten years. I graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual and Media Arts from UQAM in 2016. Collaboration and sharing with my peers are essential to my artistic journey. My interdisciplinary practice revolves around painting, collage, video, music, writing, and photography. All these mediums allow me a form of spiritual and poetic meditation that could be described as visual haikus. I seek to distinguish myself from the omnipresent flow of images by presenting images that are closer to dreams, reveries, and comics! For me, a relevant image is one that invites return, that fascinates, that compels the viewer to look further. Twice a recipient of a Scholarship of Excellence awarded by UQAM and winner of the jury prize (chaired by Pierre Dorion) at the Saint-Lambert Contemporary Art Fair, I have notably exhibited my works at the Maison de la Culture Maisonneuve as part of the group exhibition Pour ici ou pour s’emporter in 2016, several times at Espace des Mêmes in 2017, at Galerie C.O.A in 2018, at 1215 Gallery (Montreal) in 2025, at Junior Gallery (Chicago) in 2025 and at Galerie Deschênes (Montreal) in 2026.

APPROACH
For this call for proposals, I have chosen to present My pictorial practice, which consists of a harmonious blend of collage, painting, illusionism, digital arts, and printmaking. It is indeed the act of painting, but transposed to all available technical means to compose original images. Through digitization, the language inherent to painting finds its way into image processing software. Following various interactions by the artist, the modified image is reprinted onto a new physical support. This image is then cut up to evoke the plastic qualities of an old, waterlogged recipe book found in the attic. All the previous manipulations are revisited with paint. The collage is torn apart and its fragments are placed on other works in progress. The entire process takes place in letter format, but is conceived as a painting. When a work emerges from this chaos, I digitize it in high resolution to print it in a large format on textured photo paper mounted on a polyethylene panel with an aluminum frame installed at the back, recessed with a U-shaped system. This is the artwork. The small format acts as a sketch on the back of its reproduction, even though it contains most of the traces of the process.