Nicolas Lachance lives and works in Montreal. He holds a BA from UQAM (2009). In recent years he has presented his works at Regart centre in Québec, Clark centre and Lilian Rodriguez gallery. His works are in the collection of Prêt d'oeuvres d'art of MNBAQ and private collections in Canada.
Seemingly heterogeneous, Nicolas Lachance’s pictorial practice tenaciously pursues the phenomena of appearance and disappearance. This exploration has resulted in a series of paradoxes. The photographic metaphor serves as a starting point for a long and labour intensive work: gestures of alteration haunt the procedures by which an image is duplicated, rubbish flirts with monochrome, and the temptation of kitsch, with post-conceptual installation. The concept of the filter articulates these tensions. Even the pictorial surface becomes a fixation: on one hand, the filter subtracts – it mediates the flow of material, transforms and regulates effusion, on the other hand, it cultivates the traces of residue collected in the workshop (dust, images, objects used)—it accumulates deposits, a palimpsest of earlier work, as a multiplicity of catalysts repeatedly reconfigures the meshes of a tightly stretched net, perhaps less evident in the image itself, than in our own regard.