Marie Lambin-Gagnon is a visual artist, choreographer, and dancer. Her practice blends dance, photography, sculpture, and installation. She has been involved in numerous international projects, including with Sara Cwynar for her film Red Film, presented at the São Paulo Biennial in Brazil in 2018, as well as at MoMA and the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2019, she was commissioned by Toronto Dance Theatre to create a piece titled Slow Dance, a large-scale sculptural installation that earned her a nomination for the Dora Mavor Moore Awards in the “Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble” category. Marie was also honored to be featured among NOW Magazine’s “12 Artists to Watch” in 2019. In 2020, she produced Slow Death, a solo and a duet commissioned and presented at the Art Gallery of Ontario. This work juxtaposes found objects, electronic music, and colorful fabrics with the Baroque paintings of the museum’s European masters galleries. Slow Death was also adapted and presented at the Furies Festival in July 2022. In October 2023, the choreographer was commissioned by The Bentway to create a piece integrated into the large-scale installation Confluence, produced by the acclaimed artist duo Striped Canary. The artist also created a work for Toes for Dance, Body/Landscape, an in situ work presented in the gardens of Lee Lifeson Art Park in Toronto. The choreographer is currently developing her project Still Life, a series of performances and exhibitions composed of large-format photographs of objects and sculptural movements. The project will be presented in co-presentation with SummerWorks, Dance: made in Canada/fait au Canada, and The Citadel in August 2025 in Toronto.
Image credit: Photography: Alkarim Jadavji. Courtesy of the artist.