Samuel Graveline is an artist who lives and works in Montreal. He holds a BFA from Université du Québec à Montréal (2020), studies for which he received the Monique Charbonneau merit scholarship as well as a grant from the Fonds de la Faculté des arts. He has exhibited his work on several occasions, among others at Arprim, at Livart, and as part of the Rencontres de la photographie in Gaspésie.

His artistic practice is driven by the semantic and pictorial affects of images as well as their states of existence. He experiments with the different evocative and material potentials of the photographic condition. Interested, among other things, in the concepts of the image's permanence, its disappearance and its unveiling, he uses the various qualities of light either to reveal the subject or to make it invisible. His research has led him to revive already existing visual traces and amateur archives, and to use photography as a support, but also as a symbolic material that opens the door onto to other image forms. Based on the narrative and evocative function of representations, his projects notably overlap personal histories with those of strangers, so as to foreground common motifs.

Through an at once conceptual and poetic approach to the ideas that buttress his practice, he is currently exploring the instinctive potential of creative activity, thus allowing images to reveal themselves in lieu of triggering the photographic moment. To this end, he integrates new mediums (textiles, sculpture) and supports to his practice, welcoming the unpredictable material as a research vector in the deconstruction of the photographic medium.

What remain of his works is an echo of existence, traces of light; all of which is submitted to time, fragility, as well as vibrancy and relentlessness.