Strangely familiar, sometimes tangible, often uncertain, lodged between chimeras and reminiscences, my work literally invites you to a gallery of signs and shapes. By way of a sampling-driven approach, I pursue my exploration of the “the plastic déjà-vu.“ This cycle, which I started several years ago, highlights our relationship to certain graphic and pictorial phenomena. These equivocal stagings question the subjective relationship we have with these environments. Plenitude or tension, gentleness or pain, attraction or repulsion; it is still about reconciliation, about finding meaning or making sense through this fruitful chaos. Ambiguous results, between the degree zero of emotion, the solution avenues vary according to the imperatives prescribed by the development inherent to each work. This tinkering with the sensible allows possible worlds to emerge, arising from a momentary syntax, they will be the fruits of a dialogue between the signs and ultimately between these and the viewer.

Christian Gravel was born in Quebec City. He now lives and works in the Charlevoix region. Alongside his artistic career, he has been a set painter for the film industry and is now working on an architectural project in his adopted region. In 2001, he completed a BFA at Université Laval in Quebec City. Subsequently, in 2009, he pursued an MFA with a thesis. He was also the co-director of the Rouje gallery in 2007. Since then, he has participated in several group exhibitions, among others at the 2019 Papier Art Fair in Montreal. Since several years, he is represented by the Lacerte Art contemporain gallery. His work is currently part of both private and public collections.