Mariane Stratis is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Rivière-du-Loup. She has a bachelor’s degree in Visual and Media Arts from the UQAM (2016) and is currently candidate for master’s degree in Sculpture and Ceramics at Concordia University (2019-2022). Her practice questions the various cults related to the event of death. Her works raises questions of the body’s future and its fragility, of how societies manage, treat and adapt to the loss of human lives. She produce works resulting in installation-based work integrating sculpture, textile, photography and performance. She is the founder and member of doux soft club, a group of artists-curators combining the practices of Pénélope & Chloë and Marion Paquette (2017).

For the past several years, Mariane has completed residencies in France as well as in Canada. Her work is displayed in group exhibitions — namely as artist-curator at Caravansérail Banquets des Insulaires (Rimouski, 2022), En pouvoir (Québec, 2021), Pictura : pleins feux sur la peinture (Montréal, 2020), Léonard & Bina Ellen (Montréal, 2020), Galerie Atelier B (Montreal, 2020), Artch (Montreal, 2019), B-312 (Montréal, 2019) and Art Mûr (Montreal, 2015). More recently, doux soft club work’s as been show in solo exhibition at AXENÉO7 (Gatineau,2019), Verticale (Laval, 2021, 2019) and GHAM & DAFE (Montreal, 2018). The works of doux soft club was shortlisted for the Bursary Plein Sud (Longueil, 2020) and was supported by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec within a research, creation, exploration bursary (emerging) (Montreal, 2020).