Claudia Goulet-Blais’ autobiographical, image-based practice explores how family dynamics and relationships shape our sense of self. Her installations include photo, video, and sculpture—each medium engaging different dimensions of kinship, and revealing the nuance and tension inherent. The deliberate slowness of her process, often involving those close to her, and her use of analogue photography and ceramics, creates space for reflection, with care at each stage. Her research focuses on shifting roles and responsibilities in relationships, particularly the undervalued labor or care work women take on in domestic and other spheres. Informed by historical photography, such as 19th-century “hidden mother” photography and found images, Claudia considers gesture a way to surface the complexities of human interaction. Her work, through photographic staging and material form, creates a space where memory, vulnerability, and the many-layered tensions of both closeness and distance unfold.
Claudia Goulet-Blais (b. 1996, Montréal, QC) is a Vancouver-based photo installation artist and educator whose creative-research practice centres on intergenerational kinship and the process of making through performing for the camera with those close to her. Working with analog photography, ceramics, and archival imagery, she creates photographs and sculptural works that reflect on complex relational dynamics, with a focus on body language, gesture, and emotional proximity. Her work often explores aging, shared memory, and the labour of care engaging photography as both image and object. Collaboration, slowness, and materiality are central to her process, allowing space for reflection, intimacy, and vulnerability. She holds an MFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and has exhibited at FOFA Gallery, Unit_302 (Capture Photography Festival), Gallery 881, and the Libby Leshgold Gallery. Her practice has been shaped by residencies at Banff Centre for Arts + Creativity, NES (Iceland), Similkameen (Okanagan), and the Griffin x ECU Studio Fellowship.
