APPROACH
Female bodies in public spaces are rarely perceived with neutrality. Framed by the dominant male gaze, they become objects of narrative, desire, and consumption. My work seeks to disrupt these assignments by intervening in their modes of visibility, with the aim of unsettling dominant narratives and reinventing our relationship to intimacy. This approach takes shape through photographic self-portraits and the alteration of digital images via visual interventions that shift the conventions of the gaze.
Anonymization is central to this practice. It does not aim to erase, but rather to remove bodies from a logic of normative recognition and visual consumption. By obscuring faces, I question how intimacy is constructed, exposed, and consumed. I am interested in what remains when identifying markers disappear, what the body can still express outside of pre-packaged narratives of desire. Far from being a gesture of modesty or withdrawal, anonymization becomes a strategy of deferred revelation, an attempt to reinscribe subjects into a zone of intentional opacity.
démarche
What I seek is a form of presence rooted in the loss of legibility. By refusing immediate identification, I create a space where intimacy is reconfigured: neither fully exposed, nor entirely concealed. It is about blurring thresholds of legibility, inhabiting the in-between of the visible and the hidden. This shift unsettles the conventions of the gaze, especially that of the viewer, often trained to consume images without distance. My work operates within a dynamic of tension: between visibility and erasure, presence and absence, domination of codes and attempts to fracture them. This tension becomes a material in itself, a plastic space where the complexity of our relationship to the body, to gender, and to the image can be expressed.
This work is deeply connected to the exhibition space. It is in the tension between visibility and concealment that the gaze can slow down and new forms of presence can emerge. What matters to me is not so much what the image shows, but what it withholds, conceals, or inadvertently betrays—and the possibility, in that interstice, of bringing forth another narrative: one that is murkier, freer, liberated from the codes that produced it.
BIOGRAPHY
I live and work in Joliette, where I divide my time between my artistic practice and cultural mediation projects rooted in issues of accessibility.
I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Visual and Media Arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), followed by a graduate diploma (DESS) in Interpretation and Cultural Mediation from the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR), and have completed the coursework for a Master’s in Management with a specialization in cultural management at HEC Montréal. Since 2021, I have served on the board of the Regroupement des médiatrices et médiateurs culturels du Québec (RMCQ), where I hold the position of secretary.
My journey unfolds at the intersection of artistic creation and a deep commitment to marginalized audiences who are often excluded from dominant cultural narratives.