Stéphanie Auger creates installations and pictorial works that explore the structural limits of painting. Rooted in an approach inspired by her relationship to the environment, and by the exploration of concepts linked to the role of perception and time in the artistic gesture, she seeks to convey the energy that the sensible tension between the components of a work generates.

Her studio-based experimentation process includes in-depth research into traditional and contemporary painting techniques to explore the potential of specifically selected colouring materials (pigments, dyes, binders historical paints or hues). By way of a methodical process and the use of paper surfaces, she creates minimalist volumes, lines and forms—at once raw, dense and fragile—that awaken our relationship to the experience of matter. Her current reflections also question notions of permanence and ephemerality, and more generally the temporality of the art object's life in the face of productivity and conservation imperatives.

Originally from Quebec City, where she studied visual arts at Université Laval, Stéphanie Auger now lives and works in Saguenay. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Quebec, Canada, Belgium and Ireland. Several residencies have contributed to the development of her research, notably at Musée BPS22 (Belgium), Panache Art Actuel (Quebec), Est-Nord-Est (Quebec) and Interface Residency (Ireland). She currently works from a studio at the Centre de production en art actuel Touttout, in Chicoutimi.