Josiane Lapointe has been cutting and pasting things together since childhood — a practice that has grown into a visual language moving between cinema, literature, and visual art. Based in Montréal, she is a collage artist, documentary film editor with nearly three decades of experience, and animator whose work has appeared in award-winning films and on book covers.
She creates hybrid figures from photographic fragments, drawings, and textiles that appear like mysterious frames from a paused film. Her work pays tribute to gestures and knowledge transmitted from one generation of women to another, handmade creation, but also the domestic labor long kept in the shadows, now reclaimed as material for poetry and resistance.
Rooted in memory, feminism, and materiality, Josiane's work treats collage like film editing — an assembly of textures, images, and traces of time. Her experience in documentary cinema and animated collage directly informs her visual practice, where rhythm, narrative tension, and the relationship between stillness and movement are essential.
Drawing from 1950s imagery, she reveals the paradoxes of a world both alluring and restrictive for women. Her composite figures, made from multiple photographic fragments, are at once familiar and strange, present and absent.
She works both with physical materials (paper, glue, acrylic, textiles) and digitally, always preserving an organic, almost tactile quality. In an age of infinite AI-generated images, she embraces slowness, imperfection, and human presence. Each piece gives voice to erased figures, transforming domestic objects and anonymous women's faces into symbols that are both critical and poetic: a quiet act of resistance carried forward since those first childhood experiments with scissors and glue.