"Diagénèse -2-" Print - Limited Edition of 1

Visual artist Marie Elaine Lalonde holds a bachelor's degree (2006) and a master's degree (2021) in visual and media arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM). Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at the Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke, the Centre d'exposition du Vieux-Presbytère de Saint-Bruno, the Maison des arts et de la culture de Brompton and the Maison du développement durable de Montréal. Her works have also been part of contemporary art fairs in Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia. Her most recent installations are distinguished by his sensitivity to the impact of light on materiality.

"I am interested in metamorphoses; in the correlations between materiality and immateriality that make the particularity and uniqueness of each form generated by nature in time. The matter is, according to me, endowed with an inherent activity, with an indeterminate potential; constantly disposed to become other. Therefore, I am fascinated by the structures generated by the phenomena of growth and decay: processes that I consider informed, influenced and conditioned by a complex association between the structure of matter and the conditions of the environment. I am interested in the self-organizing and self-transforming capacities of matter and more specifically in what emerges from the correlations between material properties and acting forces.

My research-creation is part of a transdisciplinary approach by incorporating processes, methodologies and knowledge related to the disciplines of the Earth sciences (geomorphology, mineralogy, geology, hydrography, ecosystems) that are poetically intertwined in my artistic practice. Through sculpture and more recently installation, I produce objects and situations that offer not something to see but rather a way of seeing. My research-creation opens up notions related to materiality, agency, morphogenesis, becoming (Deleuze and Guattari) and our relationship to the environment."