Marion Paquette (Montréal, 1992) lives in Montréal and holds a B.A. in visual and media arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal (2015). Paquette’s practice stems from the creation of interfaces and situations that investigate sensitive relationships between body, space and object. Experiences of discomfort, fragility and ambiguity instigate the artist’s research on the taming of the social, natural, and built environment. This approach, intimately linked to the contexts in which Paquette’s interventions take place, generates performative activations and installations that combine textiles, objects, photography, and video. The artist also takes part in the collaborative duo demi-mesure (2020) alongside Clara Cousineau. This collaboration explores the potential of the "in-between condition," oscillating between opposition and complementarity.
Since 2016, Paquette has taken part in multiple residencies in Canada, France and Japan. The artist’s work has been presented in the context of group exhibitions in France at the Fol Film Festival (Paris, 2021) and at Ateliers Millesfeuilles (Nantes, 2016); in Japan, at Studio Kura (Itoshima, 2018) and in Canada, notably at Dazibao (Montréal 2022), Espace sensible (Montréal, 2022), OFFTA (Montréal, 2021), Galerie Castiglione (Montréal, 2020), Espace Transmission (Montréal, 2020), Galerie Atelier B (Montréal, 2020), Artch (Montréal, 2019) and GHAM & DAFE (Montréal, 2018).