photo by Ben Robertson 2024
Zoë LeBrun (she/they) is an emerging multidisciplinary artist of settler
descent from and practicing on Treaty One Territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
They earned their BFA (Honours) from the School of Art at
the University of Manitoba in 2023.
LeBrun’s process-based practice is rooted in the exploration of video,
installation, sound art, and painting. These materials and processes
embody metaphors of lived experience and bodily function, through which
she seeks to better understand the human condition. By relying on
experimentation, the works she creates reveal themselves over time, making
the artistic processes behind them indivisible from the metaphysical core
of LeBrun’s practice.
Conceptually, LeBrun’s work revolves around the body
and sensory perception, automatism and experimentation, and the unknown or
intangible, with the aim to underscore key themes including temporality,
existentialism, and radical optimism. These
themes are emphasized by their mediums of choice, which often take the
form of durational and immersive artworks. LeBrun is interested in the
relationships between sound, the moving image, and the medium of painting
as methods of taking in and expanding oneself into the outside world.
They
find solace and excitement in broadening their understanding of the
universe as something that is in constant touch and flux with the
individual, creating unique worlds within each person's experience that
indicate no true 'reality' or a single way of being.
LeBrun’s work has been exhibited at aceartinc., Mentoring Artists for
Women’s Art (MAWA), and The School of Art Student Gallery. Their videos
have been screened at the Dave Barber Cinematheque, the Muriel Richardson
Auditorium at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, and at Graffiti Art Programming,
where she has also given performances as part of their ongoing space)doxa
programming. Her artwork is held in private collections in Winnipeg,
Manitoba and Vienna, Austria.
S+R Install
photo by Ben Robertson 2024