My works are part of a reflection at the crossroads of the scientific laboratory, the cabinet of curiosity and the museum of natural history. It is from the potential of transformation of the matter, the object and the being that I analyze the connections between humans, nature and instruments. How, for example, to model natural phenomena through the intermediary of assemblies of ideas and images? This is one of my challenges, in relation to nature and current technologies. Between low-tech and high-tech, the organisms and phenomena that I suggest evolve in fictional universes that appear futuristic and technological. What emerges is an exploration of the porosity of the existing borders between art and science, and also between nature and artifice.
Laurent Lamarche holds a master’s degree in visual arts (2012) from the Université du Québec à Montréal. He works in sculpture and photography as well as in installation and multimedia. His works have been presented in group and solo exhibitions in Quebec and abroad. They are part of numerous private and public collections, including those of the Musée national des Beaux-Arts du Québec, the Cirque du Soleil, Loto-Québec, Tourisme Montréal and the University of California at Berkeley. Laurent Lamarche has created more than a dozen public artworks in Quebec, as part of the Politique d’intégration de l’art à l’architecture.
Empreintes
Stratification
Atlab
HORS-LAB
Diffraction
Magnification
Mycoplasma