For the past ten years, I have been preoccupied with the notion of geographical space through the exploration and convergence of various representational standards: cartography, topography, architecture, landscape, geometry. These realities and how they interact are the genesis of my wanderings. Through my practice in image-based installation art, work on paper and artist books, I explore the threshold between geographic space and imagined space. I am interested in these two moments of space, in the shift between the exterior and the interior, the movement between the outside world and inner thought.
Hybridization is central to my practice. It is a process which allows me to make links between notions of surface and interface, between image and object. Via different methods and manipulations, shapes come alive, move and transform, generating hybrid spaces where matter, movement, and narrative coexist. These processes yield reflections on scientific and media imageries and their impact on how we perceive, imagine and interact with our surroundings. How do tools, interfaces and images affect our relation to distance, time and the notion of habitability?

Biography

Andr?e-Anne Dupuis Bourret is currently completing her master's degree in visual and media arts at Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al. Her work has been shown in several solo and group exhibitions in Canada and the United States, namely at the Crane Arts Building in Philadelphia as part of Philgrafika 2010 and at Biblioth?que et Archives Nationales du Qu?bec for Graphzines. She also created thirty artist books which have been shown and collected in Canada and abroad, most notably by Berkley University of California, the VCU and the Art Institute of Chicago. President of the board of directors at Atelier Graff in Montreal, she is also a member of Grupmuv, a research and creation lab at UQAM for drawing and images in motion, and the instigator of two research blogs: Le cahier virtuel and Le territoire des sens.