Margot Boivin is an interdisciplinary artist based in Tiohtià:ke (“Montreal”). Her work explores aged and textured surfaces, imagery echoing feminist performance art, and plays with grand narratives of modernity. She draws sensibilities from a practice of mark-making on paper to a meditative dive into the fabric of bodies. Her work is interested in the line between the intimate and the political, the bodily and the sanitized, rest and stress, the material and the esoteric. Found objects, rusty screws, strips of leather, sheets of lined paper are symbolic of ourselves as sculpture. In Margot’s work, a surface is a skin, and a container is a body. 

Margot is a Concordia University graduate, and is currently studying at UQÀM, pursuing studies in education. She is inspired by pedagogical practices and other trans artists in her community. She is also immunocompromised, and lives with respiratory illness and the after effects of long COVID. This injects a ritual of care and compassion to the heart of her practice.