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PhD student Laur Pilon’s multimedia work, The figure\u2019s rebirth unfolds in a leaky silence, has been acquisitioned by the National Gallery of Canada.<\/p><\/div>\n
Pilon\u2019s painting The figure\u2019s rebirth unfolds in a leaky silence<\/em> was selected earlier this year by the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa to be part of its collection.<\/p>\n The National Gallery of Canada recognition marks the second time Pilon\u2019s work has been acquisitioned by a celebrated Canadian museum, with one of his paintings already part of the permanent collection at Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO).<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve wanted to be an artist since I was a child, and I was lucky to be exposed to galleries and museums at a young age; to have my work in the National Gallery of Canada \u2014 my favourite place to visit as a child \u2014 and to be seen in this way, is an honour,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Producing art under the name \u2018Laur P,\u2019 Pilon\u2019s creative practice is rooted in painting and more recently, sculptural work.<\/p>\n \u201cThe sculptures and paintings I make are in dialogue with each other: my work deals with abstraction; separate concepts or forms are combined to become otherwise,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n He began thematically exploring a paleontological term, \u201cfossil problematica,\u201d which describes fossils that are too severely altered from their original state to be identified or categorized, during Pilon\u2019s graduate studies in University of Guelph\u2019s Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art program.<\/p>\n \u201cI use this as a metaphor in my work \u2014 the concept of geological fusing of materials to create hybrid or new, unrecognizable forms,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Pilon\u2019s paintings and sculptures, including The figure\u2019s rebirth unfolds in a leaky silence<\/em>, use a number of techniques that visually communicate his theoretical research by creating textured layers on the canvas.<\/p>\n Laur Pilon produces multidisciplinary artwork under the artist name Laur P.<\/p><\/div>\n In his latest body of works, If Daffodil Was an Egg, Pilon explored his own lived experience as a transgender person. His concept drew inspiration from the Greek mythological figure Narcissus, who infamously fell in love with his own reflection gazing into a pool before fully transforming into a flower.<\/p>\n The works, speaking of a pre-transitioning experience of misrecognition, are a form of self-portrait, but one that is hard to read, blurred around the edges.<\/p>\n \u201cI made impressions of my pre-transition body in the paint, and they became the base materials I worked with. I also embedded aluminum leaf, so there is a slight refracting of light, but not a clear reflection like a mirror,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n At Brock, Pilon will expand his research-creation work exploring queer, trans and crip theories and posthumanism while creating new bodies of works.<\/p>\n \u201cI see myself as an artist and researcher; I am motivated to try new creative processes and share my perspectives through making art here at Brock,\u201d Pilon said.<\/p>\n Christine Daigle, Professor of Philosophy and Pilon\u2019s PhD supervisor, said his work offers essential reflection for troubled times.<\/p>\n \u201cIn combining artistic practice involving painting and sculpture with philosophical posthumanist inquiries into questions of identity, such as gender fluidity, transitioning, queerness and disability, Laur imagines identities that are constructed otherwise, and no longer focused on the binaries and hierarchies that have fuelled oppressive socio-cultural and political systems,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The creative force of Laur Pilon is turning heads in the Canadian art world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":100214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7484,188,55,37,1],"tags":[5263,4035,30,14373,14374,13054],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100211"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100225,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100211\/revisions\/100225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_20250317_131824-copy-843x1050.jpg\")