David Bellemare is an artist who has been living and working in Montreal for 15 years. His artistic practice is rooted in collage. Whether in painting or in sculpture, he views these mediums as a copy and paste process. He takes images out of their initial context and juxtaposes them to give them a new meaning. He draws his imagery from internet culture, clip art, used books, sacred rituals and childhood memories. This clash/disconnect between these worlds serves to create discomfort, which in turn gives life to the pictorial surface; from kitsch to the grandiose, from the banal to the sacred. Symmetry, monumentality, and symbolism are examples of borrowed elements found at the core of his works. This lexicon is mixed with another, more autobiographical one, in which he inserts anecdotes or personal stories. These are camouflaged and come to enrich the narrative potential of the works. This link, stretching from the personal to the universal is one of the foundations of his practice.