Aline Fournier

About

Aline Fournier is a student living with what is commonly referred to as a disability, facing unsuitable frameworks on a daily basis. As a body and presence evolving in a world of superficial inclusion and silence, she found neither inclusion nor even integration within the educational institution. Differences are treated as an individual’s own responsibility, and they are expected to fund and organise their own accessibility aids.

As an artist she took the radical decision to invent and to legitimise her own rules. Using a process of interdependence, infiltration and exposure, she deconstructs implicit institutional norms.

For this artwork, she employs the mediums of performance, video and writing, as well as the creation of a fictional national advertising campaign that reveals the fragility of the mechanisms underpinning superficial inclusion. She uses humour, grotesque, and absurdity to further expose the limitations of integration and inclusion within institutions.

Artist Statement

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