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
2024 "inemuri 居眠りdormir présent·e," Occurrence espace d'art et d'essai contemporains, Montreal
2024 "Fil · Flux · Figments," Livart, Montreal
2023 "Mur Mitoyen," Espace Transmission, curators Clara and Alexis Cousineau, Montreal
2023 "entre bleu," Vrille art actuel, La Pocatiere
2022 “bleu de lieu,” Fondation PHI pour l’art contemporain, Montreal
2022 “Proximité · plaisir · plasticité : regard sur la performance,” Dazibao, Montreal

Awards
2024 “Creation grant,” Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Visual Arts
2023 "residency grant in Tokyo," Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Visual Arts
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
2015 "lʼÉcole des arts visuels et médiatiques excellence award," UQAM, Montreal

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.