Mathieu Lacroix

Mathieu Lacroix’s multidisciplinary practice encompasses drawing, sculpture, video, installation and performance. His work is rooted in the revaluation of material, both through the recontextualization of his personal artefacts and through the formal representation of marginalized objects, often regarded as waste. This approach reveals the aesthetic potential of these abandoned items, highlighting both their random presence and their monumentality in our everyday lives. Through this practice, Lacroix questions the complex relationship between the individual and their environment, while reinterpreting the unsuspected beauty of neglected materials that are often discarded or removed from sight. By playing with the transparency of various papers ad superimposing layers of pictorial images, Lacroix allows these accumulations to provoke ‘happy accidents’, disrupting the reading of the works and inviting us to discover the hidden details within his drawings. This subtle approach blends abstraction and figuration, restoring artistic significance to specific aspects comprised in the conventions of art, such as the very notion of the ‘sketch,’ which is central to Lacroix’s work.

Mathieu Lacroix (born in Haiti in 1981) is a Montreal-based artist that grew up in Drummondville, QC. His practice, which combines drawing, performance, and video, has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in Canada and internationally, notably at the Musée d’art de Joliette, Af-flux: Biennale Transationale Noire (Montreal), the Off Biennale de Dakar (Senegal), the Centre Clark (Montreal), the FAB Gallery at the University of Alberta (Edmonton), and Underdonk (New York). He has performed in numerous venues, including the FADO Performance Art Centre (Toronto), the 7a*11d festival (Toronto), and Dazibao (Montreal). His works are part of the Wedge Collection as well as the collections of the City of Montreal and the City of Drummondville.

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