Dominique Sirois
Dominique Sirois’ practice is multi-disciplinary, but above all positioned within the history of sculpture. She articulates this in the medium of ceramics, between shaping and molding. The result is mainly sculturas ceramicas (Lucio Fontana), often elaborated in the logic of assemblage. Working with clay is of particular interest to Sirois for its anchorage in the material, geological world, with its echoes in economics and technology. The work of ceramics, considering all the state matter is passing through, operates as a metaphor for subjective transformations conveyed through representations of the body.
Sirois’s artistic projects are poetic, unfolding on the level of reflection through cartographies involving several references in association. She charges forms and objects with meaning, expressing one thing through the detour of another. Tensions are palpable in her work between the organic and the industrial, the gestural and the formal, and between the material/trivial and the spiritual. In addition to art history, she also refers to the history of spiritual currents and curative practices. Sirois finally unfolds her projects with installations composed of a network of works in dialogue. In recent years, she has been interested in the question of display, evoking a variety of places: museums, archaeological sites, stores, banks, trading centers. She pursues this research in a relationship between the work and its presentation, considering their relative indistinction.
Born in Tiohtiáke/Montreal, Dominique Sirois has a master’s degree (2010) and a doctorate (2022) in visual arts from UQAM. Her practice takes the form of multidisciplinary installations composed of complex displays presenting ceramics, sculptures, drawings, and photographs. Sirois’s work has been presented in many artist-run centres in Canada, including Centre Clark, Diagonale, AXENÉO7, and Latitude 53, and in private galleries such as Patel Brown, Pangée, Blouin Division, and Bradley Ertaskiran. She has participated in international residency programs, including in Glasgow, Paris, Shanghai, Taiwan, Barcelona, and Banff. Her work has also been shown in group shows and collaborations at the Ludwig Museum (Budapest), Au Commun (Geneva), the Unicorn Center for Arts (Beijing), IMAL (Brussels), and Fondation Phi (Montreal). She is collaborating with Patel-Brown Gallery Montreal/Toronto.
Recent Exhibitions
The First Time - group exhibition
From September 13 to October 25, 2025
