My artistic practice has been guided by the application of my photographic thinking to the multiple definitions of light that I explore through several mediums such as image, sculpture and installation. This light, along with its narrative contribution to the reading of images and the history of photography have increasingly become part of my vocabulary. I am interested in assessing how light impacts the visibility of the world we live in, and the ways in which it records it. In recent years, my artistic journey has been marked by exhibitions devoted to our relationship to the planet and to the phenomena linked to it, from the universe to the centre of the Earth. Halfway between a straightforward dialogue with science and a certain existentialism, I conceive and produce projects that address the macro and micro connections shaping and delineating our environment, but also, and above all, our projections of it. For many years, I have defended beauty as a stance. Thinking about the idea of beauty, rather than the beauty of images per se, has allowed me to work on projections of the imaginary, which I now define as a “desire to see” through, among other things, found images. What are we looking for in images, and above all, what do we expect from them? Between desires, expectations, and dreams, how do we show or show that we are not showing? Does this speak to our relationship with this desire to see? These questions keep me busy.

Yann Pocreau was born in Quebec City in 1980. In his recent practice—involving several mediums such as photography, sculpture and installation—he has focused on light as a living subject and studied its effects on the narrative framework of images. He has participated in several Canadian, American and European exhibitions, notably at the Rencontres photographiques d’Arles, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and The Image Centre in Toronto. His work has been discussed in various magazines and his works can be found in the collections of the National Bank of Canada, Hydro-Québec, Desjardins, the City of Montreal, the City of Longueuil, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, du Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Musée d’art de Joliette and the Galerie de l’UQAM. He is represented by Galerie Blouin-Division in Montreal in Tiohtiá:ke / Mooniyang / Montréal where he lives and works.