This exhibition brings together the perspectives of fifteen emerging artists from the undergraduate Intermedia program at Concordia University. “Living, Breathing Thing” is the porosity of boundaries: between object and subject, self and other, interior and exterior, reflecting the shapeshifting nature of interdisciplinary practices.

📍Espace Transmission

5435 Av. Des Érables, Montreal

Vernissage April 24th, 18:00 - 22:00

Open Exhibition April 25th, 10:00 - 17:00

About the Artist

The artist’s practice has always been heavily inspired by the complexities of affliction, as they pertain to the female experience. Her work is preoccupied with women deemed sad, bad, or mad— figures who inhabit a patriarchal world that misunderstands, dismisses, and confines them to discontentment. Yet, they exist everywhere: they are the clerks at the convenience store ringing up cigarettes, being looked at all day, but never being seen; they are the girls in dive bars, waiting to feel something more riveting than the sticky floors underneath their shoes; they are sitting on the bathroom floor, wishing they believed in a higher power, so they’d have someone to pray to for a text back.

Through her multidisciplinary approach—spanning music, collage, digital art, and illustration—the artist explores female malaise as both symptom and resistance, a natural response to a society that breeds and nurtures the very unrest it condemns. Each medium offers a new vantage point and emotional texture, yet sound remains her anchor. For her, there is always music, because nothing hits like a good song.

“MALAISE”

This project investigates the concept of female malaise, specifically as it relates to the Body. Through a fully written and produced EP with accompanying illustrations, the artist engages with various themes according to different parts of the human body, and how they might be visually distorted to convey the impact of malaise on an internal level. Each song on the EP is meant to be listened to alongside the experience of viewing the corresponding piece.

The work exists as part of an ongoing inquiry into some of the many facets of malaise; finding comfort in addiction; feeling envy to the point of obsession; being betrayed by someone you’ve let in; doubting your talent in the face of robots who can do it better and for free; feeling trapped under someone’s thumb, yet indulging the urge to please. The project remains in flux, evolving as the artist continues to explore the tension between bodily experience and emotional unrest. It invites viewers and listeners to consider malaise as a language through which the contemporary female condition can be understood.