About me
Gabriel Labonté-Pelletier is a multidisciplinary artist based in Montreal whose pictorial practice explores the fragility of the image through the experience of the present and contemporary affects. Through a process of assembly, it puts in tension fragments from popular culture, digital imagery, artistic references and its intimacy. Currently a student in art history at UQAM, he is continually developing this network of references and has presented his work in various contexts, including Art Cible, the exhibition Echoes de la Maison France-Montréal as part of Nuit blanche and The Holy Art Gallery in London.
Gabriel Labonté-Pelletier questions the fragility of the image through the experience of the present, lived experiences and contemporary affects. His pictorial practice unfolds into an assemblage where elements of popular culture, digital imagery, artistic references and intimacy confront each other.
Inspired by surrealism, the unconscious becomes a space of image collision rather than a place of simple associations. The images meet there, deform, producing shifts of meaning. These frictions reveal the tensions of a personal experience and a collective imagination, fantasies and mediated realities.
His pictorial works, surfaces of unstable projections, offer a dead time for the gaze, allowing it to slow down and remain attentive. In the scrolling and the dazzling obsolescence of images of the present, they offer a suspension, that of the images that make up our world and bear witness to its precariousness, saturation, and persistence.