Jean-Maxime DUFRESNE (Jean-Maxime DUFRESNE & Virginie LAGANIÈRE)

Profile

Born in France. Lives and works in Montreal. Graduated from M.A. Communications (Multimedia Studies), UQAM, Montreal in 2006.

Recent exhibitions and residencies:
2023 “Brutalisme parallèle,” VU / L'Œil de Poisson, Quebec City, Canada
2023 “Là où je me terre,” ISELP, Brussels, Belgium
2022 “Radiant Mountain”, Foreman Art Gallery, Sherbrooke, Canada
2022 "Principal Residency Program of La Becque" La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland

Supported by Canada Council for the Arts

About works / performance

In his research-based work, Jean-Maxime Dufresne investigate transformations that occur in our built, natural and technological environments, while exploring the human psyche and sociopolitical realities. These multifaceted processes of inquiry that hover between fiction and documentary combine the means of photography, video and sound. Creating fertile dialogues between the role of images and the spatial arrangement of research material, his work is experienced through the form of installations designed for each venue. He is pursuing individual practices and a duo collaboration with Virginie LAGANIÈRE.

Olympic Afterlife, 2014, photography, 100 x 70 cm,

© Jean-Maxime Dufresne & Virginie Laganière

Olympic Afterlife, 2017, installation, mixed media, variable dimensions,

© Jean-Maxime Dufresne & Virginie Laganière

Olympic Afterlife, 2014, installation, mixed media, variable dimensions,

© Jean-Maxime Dufresne & Virginie Laganière

Olympic Afterlife, 2017, video, HD, 9 min.45,

© Jean-Maxime Dufresne & Virginie Laganière

Normal Times, 2018, photography, 90 x 63 cm,

© Jean-Maxime Dufresne & Virginie Laganière

Heteropolis, below the surface, 2015, intervention and printed journal, 28 x 33 cm,

© Adaptive Actions (Jean-Maxime Dufresne & Jean-François Prost)