This week’s Summer Spotlight shines a light on Patrick Bérubé. His witty, ironic works are currently on show at Galerie [sas] as part of the exhibition Sculpture – Ludisme. I love his work (check out my earlier post), so here is a bit more info about the artist:

Playing with both desire and envy, it is with a tint of irony and humor that I question our behaviors and our reactions faced with various situations of helplessness and lost of control. Looking to eradicate pleasure as much as to produce it, I seek to outsmart the expectations in order to extract a part of anxiety and mystery from it. The goal is to activate, within the spectator, a series of punctual stimulations and small (often) misleading distresses. This way, I create circular motions, round trips, uncertainties and discontinuities that destabilize and break the linear and general conception of the world. Space and site play a very important role in my work as much in the creation process than in the work itself. Being able to build paradoxes and create ambiguities, the integration to the site allows me to reach and overcome prescribed limits. My works are offered as spaces of resistance and of breaking point with the standards and conventions, giving them sometimes an unexpected dimension.

Patrick Bérubé obtained a master’s degree in visual and mediatic arts from the Université du Québec in 2005. Finalist for the Pierre Ayot award in 2010, his work gained recognition on the national and international scene by his participations to various major exhibitions and events, especially in 2010 during the exhibition called “Ceci n’est pas un Casino” (This is not a Casino) from the Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain. In 2005, he won the prize of the jury at the 3rd Manifestation internationale d’art de Québec. He also had many stays in artist’s residences such as the one of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec in Barcelona, Spain, in 2009 and in the Cité internationale des arts of Paris in 2007. He is a member of the Pique-Nique collective since 2001 and realized, in 2010, a first work of art integrated to architecture.

More information on the Gallery [sas] website.