Maude Corriveau
Maude Corriveau is a visual artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal (Quebec, Canada) whose practice explores perceptual thresholds between surface and illusion. Her work is grounded in a research where image and materiality engage in dialogue within a post-screen reflection, questioning the effects of the digital on vision while reaffirming drawing and painting as sensitive spaces.
Through dry pastel and oil paint, she draws from virtual aesthetics while opposing them with the slowness and virtuosity of the gesture. Her works are distinguished by optical effects and luminous gradients that blur the boundary between true and false, material and immaterial. Textiles, glass, and mirrors act as visual thresholds of interference, where light generates folds and reflections that conceal as much as they reveal.
Her approach revisits the codes of classical painting and the history of pastel with a subversive softness. Long regarded as a minor practice, pastel transforms its material fragility into a conceptual strength. Through the deliberate use of iridescent colors, she questions the gendered legibility of the image: what is perceived as feminine or decorative becomes a critical strategy.
Extending these explorations into space, Corriveau conceives undulating frames that follow the movement of the image and extend the work beyond the pictorial plane. She thus opens her practice to a sculptural and installative dimension, where perception becomes a contemplative and haptic experience.
Recent Exhibitions
Le soleil ne chauffe que ce qu’il voit - Exposition de groupe
From July 22 to August 30, 2025
Chapitre III - Group exhibition
From April 4 to May 25, 2024
À l’absence du corps répond la présence de sa projection
From November 30 to January 18, 2020
Ondulations
From April 21 to May 22, 2021
Draperies
From May 27 to June 30, 2023
