Claude Labrèche-Lemay's practice is rooted in the image: with an interdisciplinary, material-centred approach, her projects take the form of photographic, video, and sculptural installations. Currently they are unfolding along two creative axes. The first, weaving together geology and anatomy, is interested in time scales and contrasts between different temporalities. The second is an analysis and visual exploration of language and its modes of operation, motivated by a search to understand the flaws that exist in processes of communication and translation.
Beginning with questions about our conception of and relationship to the world, her projects develop through wide-ranging investigation, where periods of research, exploration, and creation intersect. Her approach is always influenced by ideas of movement and transformation, with various points of tension between slowness and speed, between a frozen and moving state.
Claude Labrèche-Lemay is a multidisciplinary artist based in Montréal. With a BFA in photography from Concordia University (2020), she presented her first solo exhibition in 2024 at L'Alternative (Baie-Comeau) with Panache art actuel (Sept-Îles), following a research residency. Since 2019 she has been performing and collaborating with choreographer Laura Jeffery. Her work has been featured in various group exhibitions, including at Plein Sud (Longueuil), Galerie FOFA (Montréal), Galleri Monitor (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Gallery 44 (Toronto) as part of Proof 26, and has been supported by the Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts.
