Duval Marie-Chloé

Rooted in my background in criminology and sociology, my work explores the social codes and constructed realities that shape identity, space, and connection. Through fragmented figures and layered domestic interiors, I examine the tension between belonging and isolation, performance and truth.

Using oil, I create environments that feel both intimate and unstable—spaces where the familiar unravels.

Through deliberate distortions, unexpected textures, and emotional shifts in color, I aim to destabilize the viewer’s sense of what is real and what is performed. The familiar becomes uncanny; what appears whole is often fractured. My paintings become sites of quiet rupture. Interiors become metaphors for psychological and societal structures: protective yet confining, comforting yet deceptive.

Ultimately, my paintings are a visual inquiry into how we navigate systems we rarely question—what holds us, what divides us, and what remains when appearances fall away.

Our minds are spinning. The flow of thoughts, mass information, stimuli and questions are fast and omnipotent: never has society faced such high rates of anxiety and depression. As I paint to discover myself as an artist, a woman, and a citizen, I project on canvas my vision...

MFA- Fine arts, painting, New-York Studio School
BFA- Fine arts, painting, Concordia University
MS – Criminology research, Université de Montréal
BA - Criminology, Université de Montréal