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Paul Grégoire
Lives and works in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
https://www.paulgregoire.ca | https://www.paulgregoire.quebec
Instagram:@paul_gregoire_artiste
Although painting is the mode of expression Paul resulting from inner duality. Death and injustice are
Gregoire favors since 2015, his sustained practice of themes of particular interest to him. His work can be
sculpture, installation, performance, video, music, qualified as narrative with a touch of dark humour. He
literature and osteology continuously feeds and often uses animal representation as a symbol of human
influences his pictorial universe. All of these approaches feelings.
are part of a same system that he uses to communicate
and explore the narrative potential of his creative ideas. From one medium to the other, he looks for the most
spontaneous way, even the most direct, to translate
His practice addresses the concerns we have about his hungry imaginary. Therefore, for him, the idea has
our era and the human condition. He seeks to explore always preponderance over the means used to bring it
the complexity of the being and to portray the struggle into the world.
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