Jean‐François Cooke and Pierre Sasseville founded the artist collective Cooke-Sasseville in Quebec City in 2000. The duo has showcased their work in over fifteen solo exhibitions and has participated in a significant number of group events both in Quebec and abroad. Recipients of numerous awards and grants, Cooke-Sasseville has developed a distinctive artistic approach that fosters reflection on the artist’s condition, alienation, advertising culture, and the relationship of art to the mundane.
Deliberately paradoxical, regardless of their scale, Cooke-Sasseville’s works invariably confront the viewer with ambivalent situations, where comfort is mixed with unease, where social critique is expressed through entertainment, and where playful attitudes and an apparent carefreeness reveal a questioning of extreme lucidity.
Cooke-Sasseville’s sculptural works are part of the permanent collections of the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, and several corporate and private collections. The duo has also won numerous public art competitions in Canada.
