Sylvie Chartrand is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Montreal. She holds a PhD in Art Research and Practice from UQAM (2018) and a Master's degree from the Studio national des arts contemporains Le Fresnoy (2002). In addition to her training in the visual arts and design, she was trained in physical theatre at Omnibus Le corps du théâtre where she has been performing and teaching since 2004. As both a visual artist and creative performer, she experiments with processes that allow her to fix and remove the shadow and its ambiguous aspects in the manner of an imprint. It is through this doubling and its great metamorphosis potential that she explores the possibilities and limits of human evocation. In infiltrating silhouettes through other forms of the living, Sylvie Chartrand invites the viewer to give shape to the contours of our shared identity among the forms with which we interact. Her works are presented in a broad range of formats: photographic series, video and performed installations. Supported by the CALQ and the CCA, they have been shown as part of international exhibitions among which Le Rêve des formes at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2017), Temps d’images at Usine C in Montréal (2008), Territoires de l’image at Musée des beaux-arts in Tourcoing (2007), as well as during major events such as Ars Electronica de Linz (2018), the Rencontres VIA de Mons (2007), the Festival mondial des théâtres de marionnettes in Charleville-Mézières (2006) and the Monaco Dance Forum in Monte-Carlo (2002). In 2017, she was the recipient of the Prix du public of the 8th Foire d'art contemporain de Saint-Lambert.