Born in Algiers, Titiana Démidoff Séguin has lived in Québec since 1962. From 1979 until 1999 her work has been presented in 17 solo exhibitions and 60 juried group exhibitions in various Museums and Galleries in Québec, Canada, France, United States and Russia. She has produced 15 monumental public sculptures in Québec and France including two symposiums. Her artworks have been printed in 30 catalogues including two solos. She was the subject matter of more than one hundred of articles in print media (among which Le Devoir, La Presse, Vie des Arts and Spirale), in electronic media, radio and television.

Awarded several times by the Quebec Government, she received prizes in sculpture and drawing. Her works are part of public and private collections. She represented Quebec in Los Angeles in 1989 and has participated in prestigious juries, including the jury for the Prize Paul-Émile Borduas '84.

Several times lecturer, she was co-founder and editor of Espace magazine. Several projects are under way in Russia, France, Mexico, Québec and Canada.

Artist's Statement
If I take a look at my works of art of the last twenty years, I find constantly recurring themes, states of transformation, passages, paths. My work often evokes architecture. Yet, it is an anti-functional architecture put on a set close to that of a theatre. It takes root in human history and reveals a mystical state which has embraced the soul since the beginning of time. These are paradoxes and metamorphoses of stories that bear the distance which allows questioning.

In these pieces, I de-structure the shapes to bring them back to life. I use common materials which are part of our everyday lives and daily environment, and I let the ambiance and the colors.

In parallel of the drawings, yet on the same theme and in the same spirit, I have produced some "wall-piece-sculptures" in false perspective and some installations, I go forward in exploring my visual fictions made with melted cement, wood, light, mirrors and other components. It is the merging of reality (the materials) and illusion (the mirrors) that allows me to create these "utopic sculptures".

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