Marie-Michelle Deschamps

Marie-Michelle Deschamps was born in 1980 in Montreal (CA). She lives and works in Glasgow (GB) and Montreal (CA).

Marie-Michelle Deschamps’ work explores the issues surrounding the process of meaning-making and plays with the fragile boundaries that organize the world. From letter to word, from word to image, from book to object, her installations reinvent, dissect, and deconstruct language to question the relationship between words and things, revealing language as an experience between the lines of the text. Her installations are strange stagings, immersive and ambiguous works where found objects, sculptures, and images engage in dialogue. They are always accompanied by texts offering instructions and formulas (in the form of metaphors) that both influence and blur the reading and perception of space.

Marie-Michelle Deschamps obtained a Master’s degree in Visual Arts from the Glasgow School of Art in 2012. Her work was recently presented at the Sunday Art Fair in London, UK, with Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zurich (2013). Her recent exhibitions include Valise, BQ, Berlin (2013); Routine Investigations, a duo show with Justin Stephens at CCA, Glasgow (2013); Standard, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow (2013); Master Readings, Espace Saint-Valentin, Lausanne, Switzerland (2013); Don’t Leave Me This Way, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2012); and Grandeur Nature, articule, Montreal (2011). In 2014, Deschamps will present her work in three solo exhibitions: at Collective Gallery, Edinburgh; Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zurich; and Battat Contemporary, Montreal. In November 2013, she was an artist-in-residence at Studio Voltaire, London.