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. He has recently exhibited at Af-flux: Transnational Black Biennale (Montréal), Off Biennale of Contemporary African Art in Dakar (Senegal), Clark Center (Montréal), Maison de la culture Côte-des- Neiges (Montréal), CIRCA (Montréal), and Musée des beaux-arts du Mont Saint-Hilaire. He has performed in many locations, for example at the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance in Toronto and Dazibao in Montréal. His work is included in the Wedge Collection, and the collections of the Ville de Montréal and the Ville de Drummondville.