Ann Karine Bourdeau Leduc

My work manifests itself mainly through sculptural installations combining printed images and drawings. The key concepts that characterize my research are pastiche, imitation, accumulation, (re)appropriation, copy/paste, reproduction, collage and remix. Within the same work, ideas, materials, colours and mediums are juxtaposed, as I appropriate architectural elements from various eras to develop my own iconography. I mainly question the reproductive relationship between objects and their materiality by developing multiple set-up strategies and singular devices. Recently, I became interested in technological tools (digital cutting (CNC), pen plotter, industrial printing, etc.) and industrial methods to create works halfway between craft and mechanical reproduction. My process involves the reproduction of many textures, and it carries an ironic commentary on the fakeness of certain building materials by copying what is already trying to imitate the real thing. The purpose of these objects sometimes remains undetermined, which gives my work an unfinished and transitory character.

I live and work in Montréal, where I did my BFA at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). I was the recipient of the Albert-Dumouchel Emerging Artist Award in 2015, and I have participated in artist residencies at Atelier Circulaire (Montréal), Bòlit Centre d’Art Contemporani (Girona, Spain), Centre Sagamie (Alma), L’imprimerie centre d’artistes (Montreal), Imago (Moncton) and at Engramme (Quebec City). I presented my first solo exhibition, Structures temporaires: Unfinished wall work, at Engramme in April 2018. Since that time, I've exhibited at Galerie Sans Nom (Moncton) and Galerie AVE (Montreal). In 2019 I participated in the 37th edition of Symposium d'art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul.