Chloé Lefebvre holds a MFA in visual and media arts from UQAM. She is a member of the Centre d'art et de diffusion Clark. Her work has been presented in several artist-run centres, symposiums and international festivals. She has also created two outdoor public artworks in Quebec and will soon create another one in Montreal.
The poetic power of her images and her sense of mockery are her works' distinctive marks. Using photography, sculpture, installation and digital art, she creates unusual, transgressive and playful situations that challenge the normative commands of discourse, particularly as they pertain to childhood, femininity or sociability. She transforms the banality of everyday objects to reveal the social tensions that traverse and modulate bodies.
Since 2018, she has been scarifying plants and focusing on their healing. This series of existential transfers points to ambiguous feelings touching on environmental, social, emotional and psychological anxiety.
Using photographic testimony of these directs engravings on plants and their metamorphoses, which she affectionately calls her Cadavres exquis, she is now bringing them into dialogue in a Herbarium to reflect on our disenchanted romanticism and to clear a path for this revolt of the living. The herbarium * Cadavres exquis * will be become a Still Life / Nature morte edition.
