Her work takes form through sculpture, drawing and play. It draws connections between notions such as haunting, situated knowledges, memory palaces, dust and follies. Through writing, gesture and speech, she creates gears, relating to them as if she were a gremlin – the little folkloric creatures invented at the beginning of the twentieth century to explain bugs in machinery. Her stirrings with these machines occur in loops, shifts and returns, night and day. These half-automated, half-manual chains of operations are, for her, rudimentary and embodied ways of making cinema.
Betty Pomerleau is a visual artist and performer. After studying and working in mime and choreography, she earned a BFA in Studio Arts with honors from Concordia University. In 2024, she completed a Master in Art Espace at Paris’ École nationale supérieure des Arts décoratifs with the jury’s distinction. A copy of her thesis, which she devised at night like a copyist monk, will integrate the Archives nationales de France. Her performative installations have been exhibited in Quebec, France and Belgium, at venues including FRAC Île-de-France (Paris, FR), La Tour Orion (Montreuil, FR), CRÉDAC (Ivry-sur-Seine, FR), Dazibao (Montréal, QC) and La Volonté 93 (Saint-Ouen, FR). She has taken part in residencies at institutions such as Daïmon (Gatineau, QC), Studio 303 (Montréal, QC) and Rosas (Bruxelles, BE). Her practice received support from the Quebec Conseil des arts et des lettres and the Canada Council for the Arts. Her pieces are featured in the Art Volt Collection and in private collections in Canada, the United States and France.
