Using film, video, photography and sculpture, Pascal Grandmaison’s conceptual art investigates the relation of the part to the whole and how the experience of viewing a work is mediated by the act of capturing an image.
Grandmaison completed a fine arts degree at the Université du Québec à Montréal in 1997. He garnered national and international art acclaim in the mid-2000s when several galleries in North America began exhibiting his work. He shared a studio complex with Raymonde April and Serge Murphy.
Grandmaison’s portraiture shows an interest in the inner self. In his Glass series, his reflective models hold a pane of glass between themselves and the camera. For Grandmaison, the glass is “a metaphor for our ability to choose what we reveal to another person.” He suggests a camera’s lens is also an intermediary between a subject and a viewer, not simply an objective recorder.
Pascal Grandmaison (1975) is a Canadian artist who lives and works in Montreal. His practice explores how images influence our perception and understanding of the concept of infinity. His work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions, including Expo 67, at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (2017), Intersections: Contemporary Artist Films, at the Audain Art Museum (Whistler, 2016), Installations, at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Québec, 2016), All membranes are porous, at the Kamloops Art Gallery (2016), and Abstract Life I, at Diaz Contemporary Gallery (Toronto, 2015). His film works have been shown around the world, including at Power Plant Gallery (Toronto, 2016), Haus de Kulturen des Welt (Berlin, 2014), Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2014) and Centre Georges-Pompidou (Paris, 2011).