ARTISTIC APPROACH

Extensive travelling and working in the field of forestry have led me to reflect upon the place of nature in relation to human beings. These two entities coexist in the same universe and both possess distinct and sometimes antagonistic functions. Nature, the raw language, is represented by the vegetation, the wildlife and the environment in general and follows its cycle through its survival instinct. Humans, the aesthetic language, are guided by their survival instinct but also confronted with their own economic, social and spiritual evolution. They must learn how to deal with their environment. It’s with the help of these two languages, the raw and the aesthetic, that I wish to confront existence towards a quest for truths. I consider myself as a mirror of a society that tends to conceal reality by aestheticizing it.

I am a multidisciplinary artist motivated by a quest for balance between humanity and the environment. Being a performative militant, my disjointed performances weave a paradoxical framework of our short existence which is always guided by the body’s self-coherence. My painting and photography surprise through the super-saturation of colours while my assemblages are composed of natural and incongruous elements. My art is meant to be organic, wild and raw. An art of confrontation…an art of evolution…a humanearth art in constant oscillation between human and nature.

As an engaged and environmentalist artist, I want to help people feel that they possess a power for change…an unrelenting questioning of nature’s essential characteristic and of our own commitment towards the latter. Without the human being, planet Earth doesn’t matter anymore. Likewise, without Earth, the human being is nothing!

BIOGRAPHY

Véronique Doucet is from Arthabaska and currently lives in Évain. She has obtained a Bachelor of art (Major in plastic arts, Minors in arts and sciences at the University of Montreal) and is an emerging multidisciplinary artist both in the fields of painting and performance. Recipient of a scholarship from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) (Quebec Council of Arts and Literature) on three occasions, including one for the Aldermac Mining Plant project, initiator of a great environmental victory which has led to the restoration of an abandoned mining site. The expository project has known wide circulation in the exhibition centres of Quebec and in Sudbury. Her works
figure among various collections including that of Loto-Québec.