Véronique Savard
Véronique Savard has been interested for several years in digital textualities (emails, spam, user policies, hyperlinks or clickable words from social networks, etc.), in what they reveal about the world, its perceptual, ideological and social structures. The artist examines more precisely the tension that certain digital solicitations can produce after they have been transcribed in the space of the painting. It is through painting and on large-format surfaces that Savard highlights and questions the various social, economic and political issues associated with the paradigmatic structures that arise from digital language realities.
Véronique Savard is a part-time teacher at the University of Quebec in Montreal. She is currently completing the writing of a Ph.D. thesis in arts studies and practices. Her research focuses on the transmedia dialogue that the digital phenomenon brings to scriptural and pictorial practices.
Her work has been presented in many galleries in Quebec and Canada and has been awarded prestigious distinctions including the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art and the Figura Ph.D. Scholarship (Figura: Centre de recherche sur le texte et l’imaginaire).
In addition to being part of the collection of the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, her work can be found in numerous corporate, enterprise and private collections. She lives and works in Montreal.
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Events
2022
MONTREAL
EXHIBITION
DataffectS
Exhibition will be presented at Galerie de l’UQAM from January 21 to March 5, 2022. With Véronique Savard (QC-CA), Dominique Sirois (QC-CA), Robert Saucier (QC-CA), Julie Morel (FR), Cécile Babiole (FR) & Jean-Marie Boyer (FR), Mathieu Zurstrassen (BE), LAb[au] (BE), Rodolfo Peraza (CU/US). Curator : Nathalie Bachand