Katherine Melançon
Katherine Melançon is a multidisciplinary artist interested in making visible nature’s agency to transform human’s relationship to non-human beings. Her work takes the form of living connected installations, augmented tapestries, moving images and objects that intertwines traditional, obsolete and emerging image making techniques, collaborating with other humans and non-human beings. Often using the starting point of scanography of natural specimens, the new seeds are planted in various materials, exploring images’ fluidity through cycles of metamorphosis between physical and digital soils.
Katherine holds a master’s degree in fine arts from Central Saint Martins – University of the Arts London and a bachelor’s degree in interactive media from UQAM in Montreal. Her work has been exhibited at Joliette Museum (2023), Fondation Grantham (2022) and Fondation Phi (2019) in Canada, at the Max Ernst Museum in Germany (2023), the NovaXX Biennale in France (2021) and Arcadia Missa Gallery, UK (2011) in Europe, amongst others. In 2022, she was on the Sobey Art Award long list, the contemporary art awards in Canada.