Kristel Tremblay puts on blast the aesthetic codes of rural regions through a sculptural and performative practice. Based on the Nionwentsïo and coming from a resource-rich region, she diverts imaginaries of exploitation - wood, surface, bodies - to reveal their charges of power and desire. Between play and danger, her performances activate traditional folk culture (songs, games, excesses) where female grotesque figures emerge, vulnerable and undisciplined. Milk, fruits, nudity become ambiguous materials, repulsive and seductive at the same time. Fed by thoughts of the abject, the monstrous and of cruelty, her work infiltrates the codes of popular beauty in order to expose their tensions.
