Self-taught artists from the craft sector, Pierre Brassard and Marie-Pier Lebeau Lavoie live and work in Quebec City. Forming the multidisciplinary artist duo Pierre&Marie since 2008, they have more than thirty solo and group exhibitions to their credit. Their work has been presented in various museums, artist-run centers, cultural centers, galleries, and public spaces in Quebec, France, the United States, Korea, and Taiwan. Recipients of the Public Art Awards (2023 and 2024) and the Videre Creation Award in Visual Arts (2023) at the Excellence Awards in Arts and Culture, they favor projects that bring people together and cater to all audiences. Their career reflects a desire to democratize contemporary art by offering varied experiences both in public spaces and in specialized venues. Echoing the collective issues (especially environmental ones) of our society, their work is supported by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts. Their works are part of numerous private, public, and institutional collections, including those of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Desjardins Collection, the Collection of the City of Longueuil, and the City of Laval.

Infused with the presence of familiar objects chosen for their narrative potential, the practice of Pierre&Marie leads to various material explorations that take shape in photographic, sound, light, kinetic, and sculptural projects. Echoing the collective issues of our society, their work also reflects their interests in storytelling, staging, play, and nature.

Accessible through their references to the collective imagination, their works reveal a reinvented daily life marked by tension, yet imbued with poetry. They take the form of fleeting moments situated between the expression of joy and a sense of impending catastrophe, thus joining the tenderness and gravity of existence. Tinged by the darkness of the climatic and ideological context, they are nevertheless the engine of a transformative energy, a form of benevolent resistance, and above all, a claim to our necessary need for wonder.