Jannick Deslauriers (b. 1983) lives and works in Montreal. Known for her ethereal textile sculptures, she creates installations that combine steel structures and objects made of translucent materials to explore notions of control, confinement, transmission, commemoration and care. Her process is marked by the meticulous crafting of replica objects that appear as hollowed-out volumes wandering through space. The environments created by Deslauriers reside in an in-between space where the intimate and the collective converge through the entanglement of hybrid structures often inspired by a lexicon of digital images. In this way, referents, materials and manufacturing processes act as a continuous cycle of deterioration, repair and transformation.
Her recent projects have been presented at Projet Casa (Montreal), Fofa Gallery (Montreal), as part of the Biennale de Québec, Peel Art Gallery (Brampton) and at 1700 La Poste (Montreal), which devoted a retrospective exhibition to her in 2023. Her work will be the subject of a solo exhibition at the Musée d'art de Joliette in 2025. She has also taken part in several group shows abroad: in the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, Switzerland, France and Italy, including the international exhibition Miniartextil, the Sharjah Islamic Art Festival and Terra Nova in Venice. Jannick Deslauriers obtained a BFA from Concordia University in 2008 and an MFA in sculpture from the Yale School of Art in 2022. She is the recipient of numerous awards from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. Her work is included in the collections of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée d'artcontemporain de Montréal and the Coleccion SOLO in Madrid.