Morgan Legaré produces works using technical drawings, assemblages and digital prints that arise by way of an interweaving of material and virtual objects. Images, modular architectures and spatial arrangements both pictorial and sculptural are superimposed in the exhibition space to generate cognitive-perceptual installation experiences. Form and function here enter into tension. His proposals skilfully re-engage movement and contemplation.
Through the Reinraum corpus, Morgan explores the parallels between the functional, and particularly visual, codes of industrial and cultural settings. By means of various devices, these spaces feature sanitized and (over)controlled properties, aimed at minimizing the introduction, generation and retention of external or visual contaminants. In relation to these industrial and museum protocols, and via archives of anticipated locations and references, the artist conceives installations in which he transposes production mechanisms to illustrate the qualitative efficiency behind the creation of products or bodies of work.
Originally from Trois-Rivières, Morgan Legaré lives and works in Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal. A visual arts graduate and multidisciplinary self-taught artist, his practice oscillates between installation and media art. His works are part of the Majudia and Ubisoft Montréal collections, as well as several other private collections in Quebec. In collaboration with curator Jean-Michel Quirion and Centre SAGAMIE, he will present his next body of work at the ROSALUX project space in Berlin (Germany) in 2025. His work has also been shown in solo exhibitions at Fais-moi l'art (2024), ELEKTRA gallery (2023), ARTCH (2022), LŒil de Poisson (2022) and Laroche/Joncas gallery (2020). He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Centre d'art et de diffusion CLARK, and has donated his work to organizations such as ESSE magazine (Vendu/Sold) and Les Impatients (Parle-Moi d'amour).
SAGAMIE and ROSALUX (Berlin, Germany) are collaborating on an exhibition in April 2025 featuring the works of Morgan Legaré.
This initiative encourages a sharing of resources and perspectives between the two organizations, strengthening local and international artistic networks.
