With degrees in art history and visual arts, since 1997 Catherine Bolduc has exhibited phantasmagorical works composed of sculptures, installations, and drawings. An explorer of new territories – imaginary and real – she draws on literature and on her stays abroad. In Québec, her work has been presented at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Galerie de l’UQAM, and the Maison des arts de Laval. Abroad, her work has been viewed at the Toni Tapiès Gallery (Barcelona), GASP (Boston), and the Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin).
Artwork description
Fais de beaux rêves is composed of myriad oversized cookie cutters. At different scales, they are assembled in the form of a puzzle loosely inspired by fractal geometry. The “gingerbread man” form of the cookie-cutter is multiplied to the point that it forms a circular shape, like a snowflake or a flower, which, in turn, multiplies at different scales, from the largest to the smallest, in the same way plants do. The schematic and highly iconic human figure of the gingerbread man, as it is repeated, grouped and organized, evokes, in this context, students, their interrelationship and the social organization in which they evolve. Its reproduction at different scales also suggests the idea of human growth, from childhood to adulthood.