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In her artistic practice, Catherine Bolduc is interested in the way the psyche interprets reality by projecting its desires onto it, transgressing it through idealization and fabrication. The external world is considered here as a subjective mental construction where memory, whether individual or collective, is mixed with perception and fiction with reality.
Bolduc's research, between the autobiographical and the autofictional, summons the travelogue or the childhood memory as much as the dreamlike elsewhere or the hypnotic wandering. Whether they take shape in large-scale installations or interventions on paper, his works invite the eye to circulate in phantasmatic spaces where, oscillating between the domestic and the cosmic, the sublime and the apocalyptic, magic also shows its other side. By the nature of the themes, motifs and materials used (decorative, kitsch, cosmetic), as well as by the rehabilitation of affect (emotion and romance) which she claims, Bolduc's practice adopts a feminist stance.
Catherine Bolduc is a visual artist born in Canada (Quebec) who currently lives and works in Montreal and Val-Morin. She has had numerous exhibitions locally and abroad (Japan, Germany, Spain, France, the Netherlands, the United States). In 2007-2008, she stayed at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin and in 2010 at the Studio du Québec in Tokyo. Recipient of the Powerhouse Award in 2013, she has also received numerous grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec throughout her career. In addition to having completed nearly a dozen public art projects, her works are part of important private and public collections (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, National Bank Collection, Desjardins Collection, among others).
Material : Watercolor and acrylic on paper
