Julie Roch-Cuerrier
about
Presented in The Matrix exhibition
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Julie Roch-Cuerrier’s work is a search for new encounters and unpredictable paths. Taking form as a set of meticulous experimentations, her research is driven by a desire to attain new realities through opportunities arising out of contingency and unintentional occurrences. Weaving together autobiographical elements and speculative narratives, her work is an investigation of the poetic structures that take form at the intersection of these newly constructed stories. Centering on notions of place, matter and material, her practice investigates the physical and emotional relationship with our environment. Through subtle gestures, she explores how materials convey meanings, inviting the viewer to build a complete whole out of key distinct components. Working in a diverse range of media including printmaking, photographic documentation, video installations and sculptural objects, Roch-Cuerrier’s practice sits somewhere between documentary and fiction, at the point where the romanticism that underlies the act of re-telling blurs the boundary between the fictive and the real.
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Julie Roch-Cuerrier lives and works in Montreal, Canada. She holds an MA in Printmaking from the Royal College of Art in London and a BA in Studio Arts from Concordia University in Montreal. Roch-Cuerrier participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Canada and internationally, including the London Open triennial at the Whitechapel Gallery in London and the 3rd International Print Biennale in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. This summer she will present her work at Ncontemporary in Milan and participate in the SOMA Summer residency program in Mexico City.