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Johanne Bilodeau
Johanne Bilodeau

Johanne Bilodeau

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Artistic approach

Social ecology is at the heart of Johanne Bilodeau’s artistic research. Her work in recent years has led her to focus on the link between the restoration of natural ecosystems and the re-establishment of collective narratives. In doing so, the artist has addressed the question of individual attachment to the territory of origin and the host land. The latter seemed to her to be an essential tool for raising awareness about the protection of living things. Thus, the relationship between identity and the cultural landscape has nourished Johanne Bilodeau’s reflections and writings. More recently, a post-pandemic heart-searching has become part of her life. In her current and future work, a particular emphasis is now placed on the fragility of existence.

Her visual works are an opportunity for Johanne Bilodeau to explore naturalist-inspired motifs and symbols. These are born from the fusion of different cultures transmitted by her European, Native American and American ancestors. In the artist’s work, the repetition of these graphic signs, used as writing within the image, codifies the pictorial reading and underlines its narrative dimension. Her pictorial and spatial research allows Johanne Bilodeau to voluntarily play with the rules of composition: freely, she breaks perspectives in favor of two-dimensional planes. Also, in the same space, she likes to make flat areas and volumes cohabit by juxtaposing them poetically. In doing so, the artist casts a simple and playful light on the making of humanized landscapes.

Biography

Johanne Bilodeau is a visual artist with an extensive writing practice. Born in 1973 in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, she graduated from the Université du Québec à Montréal in Visual Arts in 1997, and from the Université de Sherbrooke in Pratiques artistiques actuelles in 2015. She has been developing her artistic research for more than twenty-five years during which she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Her works can be found in public and private collections around the world.