Artist Statement

My work is mostly centered around specific sites that capture my curiosity. These sites, often neglected or having an interesting history related to their location, share something to be told. Through walking in these spaces, researching their history and collecting data and samples directly from the sites, I dig up their story and integrate them into my artwork. The form of the artwork varies depending on the narrative, and can range from analog photography, to interactive installation, to media art, to sound based art.

The most common themes I work with are the environmental and social impacts of technology. More specifically, I am interested in how technology alters our surrounding environment, our lifestyle, our social norms and our status in a society. By analysing specific sites of interest, I can then link events at those sites to the technologies that impacted those events.

Biography

Félix Bernier is an interdisciplinary artist from Montreal now based in Halifax, with a background in software engineering. His work explores the impact of digital technologies to our physical environment and to human interactions. Using photography, installation, sculptural elements and digital technologies, Félix presents the complex inter-relations of the physical and the digital as sources of interrogation. Félix began a career change in 2018 by completing a Visual Arts Certificate at NSCAD and is currently an MFA candidate for 2021.