Pouliot, Yannick

In both my corpus of sculptures and my stencils, the generic idea of tension—confusion, sometimes—between the body and the object is deployed in multiple strategies. Reorganization of elements and intrinsic distortions imbue the furniture with the strangeness of a monstrous aesthetic, understood in its sense of deformity and unnatural assemblage. In this transposition from possession to possessor is deployed a conflation that both defines the morbid affective attachment of the subject to the object and, paradoxically, gives life to the latter by vampirization. The aesthetic of this corpus mimics the silhouettes popular in private salons in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, before photography was widely disseminated. Of this reference, I retain the sophisticated composition of bold black-and-white shapes.