Yoakim Bélanger
Born in Montréal in 1977, Yoakim Bélanger develops a practice that moves fluidly between figuration and abstraction, where portraiture becomes a site of material investigation. Working primarily with oxidized steel, aluminum, and paper, he embraces surfaces shaped by time, corrosion, and intervention, allowing each work to emerge through a process of layering, removal, and reconstruction.
Rather than depicting fixed identities, Bélanger's compositions evoke memory, transformation, and the traces left by lived experience, revealing an ongoing dialogue between the human figure and the material itself.
