Biography

Maude Corriveau lives and works in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal (QC). She holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in visual and media arts from UQAM (2020). Her work has been presented in Canada and the United States in numerous solo exhibitions, group exhibitions and fairs. Corriveau is the recipient of the CAC Explore and Create Scholarship (2022) and the Yvonne L. Bombardier Graduate Studies Scholarship in Visual Arts (2019). Her works are part of several collections, including the Mouvement Desjardins and the MNBAQ.

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Artistic approach

Maude Corriveau is interested in the action of light on matter through a hyperrealist practice in drawing and painting. In this body of pictorial works, the artist explores the formal qualities of drapery as the main subject of her compositions, while revisiting the genre of still life. An omnipresent motif in the history of Western art, draping was initially intended to conceal the body in order to magnify its forms, until it gradually emancipated itself and became autonomous. Passionate about the expressive force of her sinuous folds, Corriveau explores the notions of surface, skin and envelope, thus calling into question the bordering space between what is perceived and what is fantasized. It is with retro-reflective textiles having the capacity to reflect light thanks to micro-prisms that she pursues her fascination with optical phenomena. The pastel drawings and oil paintings in this series feature iridescent colors that blend into the fluid textures, dissolving into their shimmering reflection.