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During his stay, Pierre Durette intends to begin a new series of drawings in the same spirit as the series Le délabrement des possibles. His creations are characterized by an anachronistic play that blurs spatio-temporal reference points, creating a confusion where everything mixes and interpenetrates. His works are metaphorically inspired by a shifting swamp where ideas dilute and coalesce into a shapeless, teeming mass. These visual fictions are comparable to a historical fresco that vacillates between the beginning of civilization and science fiction

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“Through these compact works, I trace short-circuited networks, derived from fictional or real events from all spheres of knowledge. Looking at my works is like looking at a fragment of history in disorder. My work deals with the themes of deviance, ambivalence and anxiety linked to the latent threats that surround us. That's why I try to find these themes on the bangs of current events by stripping them of their original context and unity of time. I use this blurring to make the subjects collide and create an unexpected effect of meaning.” Pierre Durette

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Pierre Durette holds a B.A. in visual arts from UQAM, and has exhibited, collectively and individually, in institutional venues, artist-run centers and private galleries across Quebec, as well as carrying out public art projects at Matane's CPE and the Saint-Cyprien Church. More recently, his work has been shown at the Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent in Rivière-du-Loup, at Projet Casa in Montreal, and he will soon be exhibiting at the Centre d'Art de Kamouraska.

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