Emotions are at the core of my artistic process. This research mainly takes the form of digital art printed on paper. I approach the subject of emotions through data art and procedural art, two deliberately non-emotional approaches.

While studying for my MFA, I developed the concept of a cartography of emotional states. Since 2020, I have been engaging in a daily data collection of my emotional states, which I then translate into digital visual work. Through this process, I'm seeking not so much to transpose my personal experience as to convey the elusive nature of emotions, allowing the senses to recognize their infinite variations. In addition to its connection with the tradition of abstract art and the print arts, my practice questions the way in we are sometimes driven by our emotional states. The images that result from this are not a representation of a felt emotion; they are a solidification of it, the capture of evanescent traces as a series of abstract signs that make up the plot of a diary.

Danielle Robitaille lives and works in Montreal. In 2023, she earned an MFA from UQAM. She has carried out several residencies, notably one in Portugal and another in Finland, for which she received a research grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. In 2024, she completed a graduate s Certificate Program in creative mediation and processes from l’UQAM.

Danielle Robitaille has been selected by Regart as part of the PRÉSENCES project. Following her residency at Centre SAGAMIE, she will take part in a group exhibition at Regart in 2027.