Amélie Laurence Fortin
Amélie Laurence Fortin (she/her) lives and works between Canada and Poland.
Through her installations, sculptures, and sound works, she creates futuristic narratives in which objects bear witness to past or future actions. Her latest projects explore current technological upheavals through a radical, monumental, and performative formal approach in which opaque feminist fictional narratives and the ambiguity between technology and magic give rise to the emergence of chance.
Her most recent exhibitions have been presented at several venues: Bliss Gallery (Poland), Festival Trans Amérique (Canada), Manif d’Art 12 Biennial (Canada), Centre Clark (Canada), Express Newark (U.S.), Rouyn-Noranda Performing Arts Biennial (Canada), Das Esszimmer – Raum Fü Kunst (Germany), OBORO (Canada), Tallinn Art Hall (Estonia), Fonderie Darling (Canada), BWA Wroclaw (Poland), Mois Multi Festival (Canada), Stroboskop Art Center (Poland), KIKK Festival (Belgium), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Germany), Alfa Gallery (U.S.), as well as at various local and international art fairs. Fortin was selected for a one-year residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien (2020). She has also held residencies at The Arctic Circle (2017), at Productions Recto-Verso as part of a Canadian-Belgian co-production with Werktank (2020–2022), at Radio28 CS (Mexico City), at Avatar as part of a long-term residency (2023–2025), and at Sporobole as part of the Chantier IA program. She was a finalist for the Videre Prize (2020) and is the recipient of the René-Richard, Louis Garneau, and ADFU Prize (2010).
Her work has been featured in Szum Magazine, BLOK Magazine, BerlinArtLink, BE Magazine, EFSYN Magazine, Esse, and Espace, among others. Fortin earned a master’s degree in visual arts, focusing on the translation of extreme experiences into art installations (Université Laval, 2009–2011).
Photo: Émilie Dumais