_Bio François Quévillon is a Montreal-based artist frequently working in the context of artist residencies. He holds a master's degree in visual and media arts from ÉAVM-UQAM (2008). His work has been shown worldwide in exhibitions and events such as Connecting the Dots (Mexico City), New Frontier at the Sundance Festival (Park City), Sous Observation at the Knockdown Center (New York), International Symposium on Electronic Art (Gwangju, Dubai and Albuquerque), Open Media Art Fair - Digital Aura (Seoul), Flora and İnsan Eli Değmiş at Kalyon Kültür (Istanbul), .dreams at Theatre of Digital Art (Dubai), Climate Art Collection @ Transmediale Vorspiel (Berlin), Mirage Festival (Lyon), Mois Multi (Quebec), FIFA, MUTEK, NeurIPS, RIDM, Elektra and BIAN (Montreal). Various iterations of his solo exhibition entitled La Terre en suspens have been presented in Quebec since 2021.
_Approach François Quévillon's interdisciplinary practice examines the interplay between environmental issues, societal concerns and technological developments. The devices he creates explore phenomena of the world and of perception through the implementation of processes that are sensitive to variable environmental conditions and human interference. His work is both an invitation to contemplation and to experience sensitive chaos, offering ambiguous situations in which the elusive manifests itself. Both poetically and critically, his works address global upheavals and contemporary representations, in particular by probing the relationship between algorithms and photographic images.
_Project At the Symposium, François Quévillon will explore issues affecting the Charlevoix environment that are also of universal concern. Probing the territory using different techniques and media, he will pay close attention to the relationships between human activities, ecosystems and the singular geography of the region in a context of transformation marked by climate change.
Photo credits : Nancy Lombart
