This publication traces the evolution of Oli Sorenson's work through a body of digital works produced between 2019 and 2022, inaugurating a series of exhibitions in Quebec during the same period. Christine Blais details the ups and downs of this journey with aplomb, starting with the theoretical underpinnings guiding the artist's practice, and then moving on to a visual analysis of the multiple variations of his studio production, where he transposes his digital images to a variety of media - on paper, canvas, video, and NFT - to better disseminate them.
From the windows of multiple venues, Sorenson's works and maneuvers are multiplied to address the formal issues of geometric abstraction, to draw up strategies of creative appropriation, as well as to establish a narrative about climate change and question the economic system that underlies our time. Sorenson uses the neologism Anthropocene to weave a narrative that continues from exhibition to exhibition, naming the impact of human activities on the earth's ecology. Made with extremely bright colors and very simple shapes, the works display a hybrid style, merging the square layout of Instagram with the pixelated landscapes of Minecraft and the geometric canvases of Peter Halley.
