Born in 1977 and originally from Lac Saint-Jean in Quebec, Jérôme Bouchard lives and works in Brussels. His work takes as its starting point objects and data from the fields of geology, geography, and biology, which question scientific representation and the fragile state of our contemporary landscapes. He has developed a hybrid practice that combines traditional painting techniques with digital cutting technologies.
Through subtractive gestures such as micro-cutting, scraping, and perforation, he explores the limits of the hand and the machine. The traces left by these operations, such as smoke, burns, dust, or blade marks, reveal what could be described as the blind spots of creative processes as well as those of a world negotiated between the human, the non-human, and technology.
Trained at UQAM in Montreal, Jérôme Bouchard has seen his work included in several major collections and presented in numerous exhibitions in Canada and Europe.
(1)EXHIBITIONS
2022
Sols incertains : hériter des territoires vulnérables : ce que transforme la tempête Alex, commissaire Yannick Gourvil @___etalor, ENSA Paris-La Villette , France
2022
Foire Papier, Montreal
2022
Art au Centre #9, Belgique
2022
Art Toronto, Canada
2023
Echos / Projet en collaboration avec les ateliers MANO, galerie Bonne Maison, Liège
2023
600 m3/s, Galerie La part du feu, commissaire Célestin Pierret, Bruxelles, projet lauréat de CultureCultuur1060 / Service de la Culture des Affaires Néerlandophones, Saint-Gilles, Bruxelles
2024
OPENING, galerie bonnemaison, Liège
2024
on n’y voit rien: tout de suite – Michèle Schoonjans gallery, Bruxelles
2024
on n’y voit rien: tout de suite – Michèle Schoonjans gallery, Bruxelles
2024
Art Toronto
2025
Art Paris