Pascal Dufaux, born in Marseille, France, lives and works in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal, Canada. His artistic practice bridges sculpture, photography, and immersive media environments. In his solo work, he creates abstract, organic forms that house cameras, capturing their surroundings. Through these sculptural devices—what he calls Vision Machines—he seeks to access representations of reality that exceed the limits of human perception.
Inspired by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, Dufaux reflects on the idea that we cannot perceive the world as it truly is, as our senses—and the human body itself—mediate and constrain all experience.
Dufaux studied set design and visual art at Concordia University in Montreal. He has undertaken artistic residencies with the Christoph Merian Foundation (Switzerland) and the Finnish Artists’ Association (Finland). His work has been presented at numerous Canadian venues including OBORO, Fonderie Darling, Galerie Joyce Yahouda, Galerie Bellemare-Lambert (Montreal), Sporobole (Sherbrooke), VU (Quebec City), Truck Gallery (Calgary), Neutral Ground (Regina), Eastern Edge (St. John’s), the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery (Waterloo), Alternator Centre (Kelowna) and the Confederation Centre Art Gallery (Prince Edward Island). Internationally, his work has appeared at Espacios de Arte (Guanajuato, Mexico), Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen (Innesbruck, Austria), Images Festival (Vevey, Switzerland), Instants Vidéo (Marseille, France), Paranoïa (Créteil, Maubeuge, Lille, in France), Mapping Festival (Geneva), Lab30 (Augsburg, Germany), and Solway Gallery (Cincinnati, USA).
Since 2016, his primary focus has been his collaborative practice with multidisciplinary artist Sarah Wendt.
