Élise Lafontaine

Montreal-based artist Élise Lafontaine explores the body as an architecture that accumulates sensory experiences, focusing on the duality of interior/exterior thresholds. Through hybrid and abstract painting (both two-dimensional and volumetric), she examines this shifting boundary, particularly in relation to female bodies seeking to break free from constraints. Rooted in a feminist spatial aesthetic, her site-specific research includes experiences in caves, spiritual sites, and places where she has worked with women’s communities, such as prisons and psychiatric institutions. Lafontaine has exhibited in Canada and internationally at venues including Pangée, Centre CLARK, Jack Barrett, and Daniel Faria Gallery, and has participated in several international residencies, including an upcoming residency at ISCP in New York. She is represented by Pangée (Montreal).