Lapointe (born 1957 in Montréal) is known for provocative early installations and architectural interventions that examine the relationship between marginalized bodies and the institution. Across decades of work, she has been influential in feminist and queer discourse, repeatedly returning to the tensions between subjectivity, desire, and how bodies are represented and contained.
Her practice often uses mixed media and unconventional materials, combining figuration with found objects and substances derived from plants and animals. Lapointe describes her approach as an “archaeology of memory,” using collage and material assembly to make tangible what usually remains unseen—whether that’s bodily experience, intimacy, or the felt traces of technology and the natural world.
Recent work leans into playful surrealism and gender-fluid imagery. Figures articulated in ink are embellished with tactile, precious, and fragile elements—crystals, shells, pearls, beads, gold leaf, and cocoons—so that vulnerability and tenacity coexist in a single, charged surface.
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