Collection: Xavier Ford-Legrand

Founder of the collective Les Mêmes-Cacaïstes and a pop-up art exhibition space called l'Espace des Mêmes, I have been working in the contemporary art world for seven years. I completed my Bachelor's degree in visual and media arts at UQAM in 2016. Collaboration and sharing with my peers are essential to my journey. My interdisciplinary practice revolves around painting, collage, video, music, writing, and photography. All these mediums allow me a form of spiritual and poetic meditation that could be described as visual haikus. I seek to stand out from the omnipresent flow of images by presenting images that evoke dreams, reverie, and comic strips! For me, a relevant image is one to which you must return, one that fascinates, that captures the gaze from near and far. Twice a recipient of an Excellence Scholarship awarded by UQAM and winner of the jury prize (chaired by Pierre Dorion) at the Saint-Lambert Contemporary Art Fair, I have exhibited my works at the Maison de la Culture Maisonneuve as part of the collective exhibition "Pour ici ou pour s'emporter" in 2016, several times at the Espace des Mêmes in 2017, at Galerie C.O.A in 2018, at the Maison Symphonique with the Musée Nomade Connectart in 2021, and at Livart in the summer of 2023.