Isabelle Lapierre is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is grounded in the assemblage and transformation of reclaimed materials, objects, and images. Her work explores the connections between elements of different natures in order to challenge the boundaries that structure our perception of reality. Influenced by an expanded conception of ecology – understood as the study of relationships between beings, materials, and their environments – she favors bricolage, experimentation, and reuse. From one work to another, previously used materials and forms may be recovered, reassembled, or transformed to generate new creations.
Attuned to the agency of the elements that shape her creative process, she approaches her practice as a form of magic in which materials, imaginaries, and gestures of transformation interact. Her work thus inhabits the ambiguous space between the concrete world and representation, drawing on the codes of popular magical culture and everyday objects. Balancing seriousness with self-irony, her works seek to generate new meanings while blurring established hierarchies and categories.
Isabelle Lapierre holds a Master’s degree in Visual Arts from Université Laval, for which she received the René-Richard Award (2022). A versatile, “all-terrain” artist, she has been active in the visual arts field for over 15 years. Her career includes numerous solo and group exhibitions, as well as various events in Quebec and France. Some of her works have been presented in public space, including Séance Wifi DIY (La Bordée / Ville de Québec, 2024–2025) and Gris comme un feu de Bengale (Art Souterrain / Ubisoft, 2023).
From 2009 to 2014, she was a member of Les Fermières Obsédées, a collective whose performances were presented across Canada and internationally. She is also co-founder of the collective B.L.U.S.H. — active since 2015 in the creation of performative works presented in Quebec and abroad — as well as Filles du désordre, a duo founded in 2025 dedicated to installation-based practices. Her works are part of the collections of the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC), the Ville de Laval, the Ville de Montréal, Ubisoft Montréal, and MAADI, a performative and conceptual curatorial project by Stanley Février.
