Florence Viau is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. She holds a BFA from Université du Québec à Montréal, and is currently pursuing a MFA at Concordia University.

In her artistic practice, situated at the intersection of sculpture and painting, she explores systems of representation linked to archaeology, ecology, science and science fiction. She focuses on issues related to nature, memory, and language, by way of a reflection on their (de)materialization. Through an examination of the tools and techniques serving to preserve or alter images, her work pays particular attention to the image's evolution. She notably engages with the technological eras during which transmission modes have changed as new interfaces emerged over the years, and in which tangible material is confronted with the complexity of our contemporary communicational surfaces.

In the studio, she starts her research by exploring the potential of digital photography, from capture to translation to data storage. Her projects subsequently draw on visual and conceptual processes such as transposition, illusion, and assembly to generate new materialities in the screen image. Through shaping, engraving, and surface processing, the images acquire new existence modes, shifting from virtuality to reality as they take on a mineral density.