Louis-Charles Dionne's practice is anchored in sculpture, installation and public art. His work is rooted in a vocabulary of low-interest objects typically found lying around in an average home, store, studio, or garage. Dionne is interested in the evocative power of objects, materials and sites to recall personal, human, or material memories; to create narratives; or to establish relationships between contemporary elements and art historical tropes. Through slight shifts of composition, framing, and utility, his work reorients the material cultures around us to challenge notions of function, affordance, and value. The Sisyphean loop best exemplifies his attitude towards labour and supports his interest for protracted processes that redefine our perception and relationship with time. His work is about marking the passing of time-and about the banality of the passing of time. Dionne's sculptural practice is invested in processes that reuse materials without retaining any traces of their previous form; materials and processes that blur the distinctions between permanent/ephemeral, new/used, and producing/recycling. His work oscillates between monumental and ephemeral; between productivity and aimlessness. It is the non-heroic and anti-climactic experience that Dionne is interested in.
Louis-Charles Dionne is a French-Canadian artist and art educator from Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Rouville (QC) now based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal (QC) and K'jipuktuk/Halifax (NS). His work has been presented across Canada in various venues and public art events. He holds a bachelor's degree in sculpture and art history from Concordia University, a master's degree in fine and media arts from NSCAD University, as well as a graduate diploma in post-secondary education from UQÀM. Dionne is currently a sessional faculty in Art History and Contemporary Culture (Art Education) at NSCAD University, and a part-time faculty in Sculpture (Fine Arts) at Concordia University.
