Frédérique Laliberté’s practice is characterized by audacity, intrigue, humor and playfulness. It manifest itself in a variety of formats, situations and narratives, all connected by her unconditional love for paper mâché as well as literary constructs where funny ideas and sad ideas coexist. Her antidisciplinary approach gives rise to emancipated artistic and intellectual adventures. Frédérique Laliberté invents existential crafts, makes spatiotemporal spaghetti and tells dubious stories, balancing on the boundary between documentary and fiction. Attaching great value to waste, she momentarily introduces it into fabricated universes, in an elaborate and futile attempt to deviate its trajectory towards the dump. Frédérique inhabits the world aboard the material, performative and discursive playgrounds that are her polymorphic projects. Speaking to the imaginable, her research-creation is engaged in a practical and allegorical collaboration with objects, aiming to build an interpretation of reality where human protagonism is dismantled. In doing so, she questions the dystopian narratives of the present in which her practice is situated.
Frédérique Laliberté is an artist-researcher and a sailor. She is also an unknown stand up comedian, an outdated geek and a future stage designer who has presented solo and collective projects internationally. The recipient of the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art (2018), Frédérique is currently carrying out research-creation on ships, survival and extinction as a PhD candidate at Université du Québec à Montréal. She lives and works along the St-Lawrence river.
