BIO

Originally from Quebec City, Edmond Rochette Pelletier is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tio'tia:ke / Montreal. He graduated in Visual and Media Arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal (2021) and is currently pursuing his graduate research at Concordia University in the Sculpture and Ceramics program since 2023.

His research focuses on sculpture, media arts and artistic interventions in public space. He was the winner of the Prix Louise Paillé (2024), and his work was presented at the Galerie de l'UQAM (2021), the Maison de la culture Marie-Uguay (2021) and the ARTCH festival (2023).

ARTIST STATEMENT

His artistic practice is articulated around coincidental discoveries based on the concept of serendipity. In this sense, the cohabitation of different media, such as sculpture, video and performance, coupled with trial and error, is for him the driving force behind his inspirations. Accepting and reconsidering the idea of doing anything and everything allows him to discover a wide range of connections, including those at the heart of his research: the plurality of human experience with matter and space.

Nevertheless, the heterogeneity of all his creations is influenced by one constant: play as an activity, but also play as a space conducive to movement. In this space, in the manner of an essay, he freely explores an amalgam of poetic ideas, leading him to propose dream-like experiences, where memory rubs shoulders with the strange and unusual.