jannick deslauriers

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM - Fall 2023

Sculpture, installation art, fashion design and architecture are important influences on Deslauriers’ textile research. She continuously expands her practice by revisiting themes central to her work: memory, impermanence, fragility, and the ethereal and through the integration of  materials such as steel rods, beeswax, tulle, clear vinyl, and wood ash. Her most recent work has something of the anthropology of equipment, drawing particularly on the registers of care (from prostheses palliating the incapacities of the body or resting and restrain devices), recreational equipment for children and flying machines. She builds object-beings; sort of imaginary prosthetics that speak to our need for support. Her process is based on the stratification and entanglement of referents, materials and making, through the ongoing deterioration and repair of the objects she fabricates.

Website: www.jannickdeslauriersstudio.com
Instagram: @jannickdeslauriers