I use sculpture to explore my thoughts on the intertwining of collective memory and personal recollections in an increasingly technological and polluted world.

I undertake meticulous research into the untapped potentials present in the photographs, objects and videos I carefully salvage from the ever-expanding digital and physical waste dumps. These spaces abound with neglected, abandoned or overlooked elements that awaken my creativity.

This technological curiosity, born of a life spanning pre-Internet analogism and the digital age, translates into a combination of videogame artefacts and computer leftovers, in addition to craft practices such as ceramics, weaving, embroidery and cyanotype.

I symbolically use digital errors aka glitches and a “sloppy” aesthetic to transform elements of the past into noisy visual compositions, poetic texts and evocative objects that invite us to reimagine our relationship with the environment and objects around us, imagining possible futures somewhere between dystopia and enchantment.

Claire Burelli is currently a candidate in the Master's program in visual and media arts, with a major in creative practice, at the Université du Québec à Montréal.