Bio

Louise Campion (b. 1996) is a French artist living and working in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal (Canada). She attended the Fine Arts School of Lyon (Fr), and completed her BFA in Studio Arts at Concordia University in 2019. Primarily interested by painting and drawing, her current practice focuses on the exploration of awareness and emotional survival in a context of global violence. This year especially, she got really intrigued by the corporate world, its very own codes and dynamics. Louise has exhibited works in galleries like Salle Vasse (Nantes, Fr), the FOFA Gallery (Montreal, Ca) and others, and recently curated shows at Eastern Bloc and Espace 8 (Montreal, Ca). She opened her art studio in June 2019 and is now developing her series Wondering if men in suits turn me on or piss me off.

Artist Statement

I’ve always seen my dad in a suit. For as long as I can remember, the powerful figure of the male in a two or three piece tuxedo working, or coming home from work has been a part of my education as something directly related to success and attractiveness. A few years ago, my dad got me a job in an office for the summer, and my arrival in the regular proletarian manner of organization struck me in different levels. It is an extremely white male world with its very own codes of conduct and unwritten rules, and where people approach reality in a very specific way. With priorities that are really different than mine.

 Fascinated by this reality, I came to understand that everything making me angry or sad towards our contemporary society (whether related to climate emergency, patriarchy, racism, indigenous oppression, capitalism and so and so) has been in the end, decided, approved and validated by a powerful male in a suit, behind a desk. With different priorities than mine.

My goal with this series is to explore the occidental corporate world and its absurd dynamics through an overall energy created by colours combinations and relationships. I am focusing on the notion of power and charisma conveyed in the body language of those figures, especially in the bust, the position of the shoulders, and the gesture of the hands. And I’m trying to understand, as well as to question, the attractive value of greed.


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