Bio

Caroline Blais is a Montreal-based multidisciplinary artist. She studied cinema, graphic design and languages in Montreal and Lapland. Her art practice situates itself at the intersection of art and graphic design, often shown in the public space. Her work has been presented in Canada, United-States and Europe, as video performances, short films, video installation work, publication work and web projects. She gets inspired by the everyday life, people she meets and travelling in unfamiliar places.

Works

Roundtrip

  • 2013
  • Caroline Blais

Leaving to travel, uprooting yourself, discovering new geographies, getting lost, finding yourself.

Roundtrip

Faire corps

  • 2017
  • Caroline Blais

Aerobic routine, incantation and out of body experience.

Faire corps

Murmur

  • 2017
  • Caroline Blais

A conversation between a fly and electricity.

Murmur

The Taekwondo Class / La leçon de Taekwondo

  • 2015
  • Caroline Blais

Taekwondo first emerged as a martial art in Korea in the 1950s. Today, it is taught worldwide as shown here in a elementary school gymnasium in Montreal.

The Taekwondo Class

Universal Mechanism / Mécanique universelle

  • 2015
  • Caroline Blais

As the Earth rotates slowly, various forces of nature, mechanical movements, and human trajectories occur simultaneously.

Universal Mechanism

Étoiles

  • 2013
  • Caroline Blais

Meteors and lunar rocks seen through a microscope slowly morph into an interstellar landscape.

Étoiles

L'hiver est hockey

  • 2010
  • Caroline Blais

On a sunny afternoon or during a snowstorm, friends meet up at the neighbourhood's skating rink to play hockey.

L’hiver est hockey