Véronique Duplain (photographie)

About the artist

Véronique Duplain is a Montreal-based photographer. Self-thaught, she has explored different spheres of photography before devoting herself to composition work with the Selfie Project, on which she has been working for nine consecutive years. In the context of this project, the artist stages herself as the main subject of different narrative universes each day, for the entire month of February.

These daily pictures, exhibited next to one another, form visual diary witnessing Duplain’s personal evolution as an artist. These self-portraits offer more than a simple entry to the artist’s personal universe: they can be read, notably, under the perspective of social criticism. Published daily on Instagram, these photographies address the very actual themes of Internet voyeurism and of the media construction of public personalities.

Duplain, despite the possibilities offered by the digital, accords importance to manual work and craft manipulation in her artistic practice by setting up physically each element composing the photographies. The artist, by corporeally modifying a space that seems realized by digital montage and by embodying a fictive character, plays with the boundaries of the real and the illusory.