Marjolaine Bourdua

The objects that I create take on various shapes ranging from sculpture to drawing, installation and sound art. I have often used the motifs of the stage and the frame to reflect on the idea of emptiness and the anti-spectacular. I seek to create works that are put together like vessels in which void spaces evoke an absence, a suspension. I am also interested in the notion of surface. By toying with the qualities of various materials and through aesthetic strategies, I aim to trigger a critical reflection on the at times illusionary or attractive dimension of the world in which we carry out our lives. For me, the fact of creating empty representations is a means to indicate an essence through this invented space all the while pointing to its void character. The empty zones that I compose thus function as figures of imaginary absorption via which one can glimpse a relation to the banal or a distorted recuperation of a certain popular culture.

Marjolaine Bourdua holds an MFA from UQAM as well as a graduate certificate from Villa Arson in Nice. She has presented her work in Quebec, France and Germany under various guises, such as exhibitions, curatorial projects and sound interventions. Among others, at the artist-run centre Optica, Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides, Maison des arts de Laval and Galerie Frédéric Giroux in Paris. She has been an active member of Centre d’art et de diffusion CLARK since 2011.