Ann Karine Bourdeau Leduc

Immersion residency

June 25 - August 3, 2025

End-of-residency meeting: Saturday, August 2nd, at 4pm.

Ann Karine Bourdeau Leduc designs sculptural installations incorporating printed images, drawings, found objects, and repurposed construction materials. Her creations are inspired by the principles of architecture and design, while remaining within specific contexts.

She continually develops unconventional recycling strategies to question the origin of objects and explore their sculptural and pictorial potential. Working through sampling, she examines the reproducibility of objects and images via cycles of transformation, generating multiple iterations. Her installations, composed of composite assemblages, rest on a precarious balance, revealing certain artificial aspects of our built environment.

During her six-week residency with Adélard, Ann Karine Bourdeau Leduc developed a new inventory of architectural elements, drawing inspiration from the rural context of Frelighsburg. Her interest focused particularly on often-overlooked architectural remnants. Construction debris, rocks, brick fragments, cedar shingles, and other fragments of local architecture allowed her to create new assemblages, enriching her repertoire of forms, textures, and materials.

Biography

Ann Karine Bourdeau Leduc is an artist who lives and works in Montreal. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from Concordia University (2023) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual and Media Arts from UQAM (2016). Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions in Quebec and New Brunswick, including DRAC Art actuel (Drummondville), Arprim (Montreal), and Galerie Sans Nom (Moncton). She has also participated in artist residencies in Canada and internationally, notably at Bolìt Centre d’Art Contemporani in Girona (Spain, 2018), the Frans Masereel Centrum in Kasterlee (Belgium, 2022), and Rad’art in San Romano (Italy, 2023).