Andrée-Anne Carrier has been living and working in Montreal since 2009. She earned an MFA from UQAM, over the course of which she received the Joseph-Armand-Bombardier Canada graduate scholarship (CRSH-2014). Her sculpture work has been presented in several group exhibitions, notably at CIRCA, Matérialité (2021), La maison des arts de Laval, Banlieue! Ordre et désordre (2015) and Art Mûr, Fresh Paint/New Construction - 11th edition (2015). As a result of her participation in the Foire d’art contemporain de Saint-Lambert (2016) she was awarded the 2016 FAC jury prize. The result of the work she will carry out during her residency at SAGAMIE will be presented in a solo exhibition at CIRCA, scheduled for October, 2022.

Through formal twists on everyday objects, Andrée-Anne Carrier explores notions of familiarity and our perceptions of material reality. Her artistic practice becomes a research space, a place to question our relationship to the familiar object. This approach to sculpture is akin to a meticulous sabotaging of form. She enjoys unsettling the material integrity of things, as if though putting the substance of an object to the test made it possible to understand its reality and to reveal its other dimensions.

Mass cultural objects with hollowed-out cores, divider-objects or containers (cardboard or plastic packaging, ceramic knickknacks and kitsch vases) are the subjects of these modification experiments. Carrier treats space as a site where relations and tensions between contours, surfaces, solids and hollows are played out. The explored spatial dynamics guide the relations between things as containers or contents. In the studio, the objects are subjected to a deconstruction practice in which details are shifted, surfaces troubled or forms inverted into their negative space. These "acts of vandalism" contribute to a shaking up of perceptions and impose a singular view on the status of objects in their sociological, aesthetic and spatial dimensions.