Her work takes shape as performative installations combining sculpture, drawing, projection, printmaking, and mime. In recent projects she has brought together ideas of haunting, technical environments, artificial intelligence (or–stupidity), and memory palaces. Visible traces of the creative process play an essential role in her work. Through writing, gesture, and speech, Betty attempts to connect with the machines she builds, and to present the shifting form of these relationships. Half-automated, half-manual, these operational chains are, for her, rudimentary ways of making cinema.
Betty Pomerleau is a multidisciplinary artist born in Quebec City. After working and studying in performance and choreography, she graduated with her BFA (With Distinction) from Concordia University, then completed an Art Espace MA at the École nationale supérieure des Arts décoratifs in Paris, also with distinction. She has participated in residencies, performances, and exhibitions in Quebec, France, and Belgium, including at FRAC Île-de-France, Non-étoile, CRÉDAC, Dazibao, La Volonté 93, Daïmon, Studio 303, and P.a.r.t.s./Rosas.
