Marie-Chrystine Landry holds an MFA in visual arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal. The constructions that she creates blur the boundaries between painting and sculpture, skin and carcass, memory and fiction, collectivity and privacy, still life and landscape, makeshift work and poetry. Like small “theatres,” they make light of the logical relationship between a real place and its representation. For the 2001 edition of Artefact Montreal: Urban Sculptures, for example, Landry installed a three-dimensional, floating “postcard” on the Lachine Canal entitled Un peu de mer n’importe où; complete with beach umbrellas, cabins, deckchairs and a lifeguard’s post, it presented a parody of stereotypical holiday beaches such as those in Florida or the Côte d’Azur. (Source: Historical dictionnary of Québec sculpture in the 20th century)
