Bio
Tracy Maurice is a Montréal-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans visual art, film and video, sculpture, and installation. Her work merges analog craftsmanship with digital processes to explore interconnected relationships between time, memory, nature and the ephemeral. Drawing from a background in Art History, she often references early cinema and the history of science in her work.
Maurice first gained recognition as the creative director for the band Arcade Fire, designing iconic album artwork and directing video projects for the albums, Neon Bible and Funeral, including the groundbreaking interactive music video Black Mirror.
Her work has been shown internationally, including the 11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art in collaboration with Dana Michel, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, HAM Helsinki Art Museum, and Lincoln Center (New York). She has given talks at Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, Berklee College of Music, and HFBK University of Fine Arts, Hamburg. She taught filmmaking at the IDFA Film Academy Summer Program (UC Berkeley), and participated in artist residencies at RU (New York), SÍM (Reykjavik) and Kinosaki International Arts Center (Japan).
Artist Statement
My practice is research-based and driven by experimentation with materials, techniques, and technologies that shape perception. Working across film and video, sculpture, installation, and visual art, I merge analog craftsmanship with digital processes to construct immersive visual worlds. The camera functions as both a tool and a threshold, allowing me to shift scale, manipulate time, and create spaces that feel intimate and otherworldly.
I explore relationships between temporality, memory, nature, and the ephemeral. Informed by art history, early cinema, and the history of science, my work focuses on moments where observation, invention, and imagination converge, offering frameworks for reconsidering how we understand our surroundings and how perception itself can be altered or expanded.
Symbolism, mythology, and dream logic play a central role in my work. I am interested in the fusion of science and magic, where empirical knowledge coexists with mystery and belief. Recurring motifs such as caves, portals, and bubbles suggest alternate planes of existence, while the use of black backgrounds reframes darkness as transcendent, and connected to the natural world.
My process emphasizes hands-on, analog techniques, practical in-camera effects, physical materials, and staged environments often combined with digital compositing and layering. Dance and music are integral influences, shaping my sensitivity to rhythm, gesture, and the emotional resonance of movement.
Ultimately, my work inhabits a space between the known and the unknown, the physical and the metaphysical. By blurring these boundaries, I aim to create experiences that invite contemplation, sensory immersion, and a renewed sense of wonder, positioning art as a site where scientific inquiry and poetic imagination merge.
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