Influenced by her background in dance, Camille Lescarbeau’s practice is built around the laborious and physical process of handmade paper. She is guided in her approach by a romantic vision of matter, for which she hopes to care. Having been led by feminist art historical discourses to reject the hierarchy between art and craft, Lescarbeau proudly inhabits a posture of ecofeminist artist-artisan. For her, working in textiles is a way to participate in the history of the world and to connect with her ancestors. And so she alternates between sock-patching, installation, poetry, and a paper practice at the crossroads of painting and sculpture.
Guided by values of ecological responsibility, Lescarbeau works exclusively with recycled materials and objects. This has prompted her to make paper from the waste products of her daily life and artistic practice. Fragile and precious, the paper resulting from these experiments allows her to reflect on her relationship to the material world, to its infinite potential, but most of all, to how it must be carried with care.
Camille Lescarbeau is an ecofeminist artist-artisan based in Montreal. She holds a Master’s degree in Visual and Media Arts from UQAM and a bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from Concordia University. She co-founded the UQAM paper workshop and regularly shares her research through exhibitions, workshops and conferences in Quebec. Lescarbeau is preparing several projects for 2024, including individual exhibitions at Regart (Lévis) and L'Espace Pierre-Debain (Gatineau), followed by residencies at the Saint-Jean-Port-Joli Sculpture Biennale and at the NARS Foundation (New York).
