Marie Samuel Levasseur is an artist, curator, researcher and caregiver. She pursues a multidisciplinary practice in which art and life blend, and has devised a collaborative chat-based creation approach. She mobilizes multiplicity and micro-narratives to address the inexpressible, as well as plural identities in self-narratives that reveal experiences linked to remarkable lives.
Her practice intersects research, accessibility, co-creation, and the manifestation of memory. The question of the inexpressible raises the issue of language in terms of what it cannot, will not, or does not know how to say, what it chooses to remain silent about, or what it conceals. Examining the inexpressible brings to light the limits and flaws of language and of the process of communication between people. This framework also allows her to explore how a multiplicity of voices (whether through performance or gestures of accessibility) can enrich the textuality and description of the practice and the works. Marie challenges the concept of a unified narrative to construct possibilities in which revisiting memories and feelings invites one to accept flaws and contradictions.
Marie holds a MFA Arts from UQAM, and graduate diplomas in Indigenous studies, Education, and in interpersonal and sexual violence studies. Alongside her solo practice, she is also engaged in a co-creative and curatorial practice at the intersection of art, truth, and justice, notably as part of the duo Place Courage.
