My artistic projects aim to offer an alternative experience to the obscure and “non-visible” elements of the social environment through their spatial presentation and an exploration of their tangibility. Installation, drawing and performative actions are my mediums of choice to make this experience concrete. I approach my work in multiple dimensions by carrying out experiments on the texture and structure of materials mainly comprised of fabrics that I put in relation with other elements such as ceramics, wood and light. This process allows me to introduce new relations between the cast shadow and its environment, beyond the binaries often assigned to them. Intermingling historical sources (taken from literature, film and theatre), architectural references and ephemeral set-ups, my work examines forms of monstrosities in which the use of the shadow becomes a strategy to question what we designate as “normal” and to react to it through the creation of zones of ambiguity.

Amélie lives and works in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke. She received a MFA as part of the Concordia University Fibres and Material Practices program and she also holds a BFA from UQAM and a BA in Social Work from Université de Montréal. Her work has been presented in many exhibitions and events in Canada, the US, Turkey and in Europe, notably in Switzerland, the UK, Germany, Finland, Lithuania, Norway and France. She has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the FQRSC, and she was the winner of the emerging artist prize of the Kaunas Biennial (Lithuania).