Arkadi Lavoie Lachapelle

My multidisciplinary works with performative roots bring together gestures, objects, poems and create complex images with the potential for collective and individual (self-)healing. I use everyday and popular culture objects such as eggs, rocking chairs, woven carpets, snakes, and address issues such as childbirth, masturbation and funerals. These “common places” are then observed and explored with empathy from a queer and feminist imagination. In this sense, I am currently questioning how my foliage performs white supremacism after 32 years of exposure to pesticides from this crop. A questioning connected to my desire to thwart the capitalocolonial-patriarchal bud-burning system.