Marion PAQUETTE

Profile

Born in 1992 in Montreal, Canada. Lives and works in Montreal. BA in Visual and Media Arts from the University of Quebec in Montreal in 2015.
Marion Paquette has a multi-faceted practice which includes a solo practice, a collective practice (doux soft club, 2017) and a duo practice (demi-mesure, 2020).

Recent exhibitions and activities
2023 “courant d’arrachement,” Parc du Camps-et-de-la-Cité, Rivière-du-Loup, Canada
2022 “Indice-Objet, L’Écart,” Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Canada
2022 “Bye bye bourgogne,” Complex de Bullion, Montreal
2022 “bleu de lieu,” Fondation PHI pour l’art contemporain, Montreal
2022 “Proximité · plaisir · plasticité : regard sur la performance,” Dazibao, Montreal

Awards
2022 “Creation grant,” Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Visual Arts
2020 “Research, creation and exploration (emerging),” Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

About works

Paquette’s solo practice revolves around the creation of interfaces and situations that probe the sensitive relationships between body, space and object. The experience of the uncomfortable, the fragile and the ambiguous instigates research on the taming of the social, natural and built environment. This approach, intimately linked to the contexts in which the interventions take place, generates performative activations and installations that combine textiles, objects, photography, drawing, video and writing. In the contexts of presentation, the sculptural devices take the form of extensions of the body (prosthesis, membrane) or of space (surface, habitacle) and are activated during public performances, in situ interventions or collaborations with a participatory audience.