Amélie Girard

Born in 1980 in Quebec, Canada, Amélie Girard first graduated with a Bachelor of Mathematics. She then travelled the world and settled in Japan for a few years, where she worked as an English teacher. It was upon her return to her home country in 2010 that she started studying art — and she never looked back. She now lives in Lisbon, Portugal, where she recently completed a Master’s degree in Glass Art and Science and continues to develop her artistic projects. Her work spans sculpture and installation. Through her practice, she explores the physical nature of matter, the limitations of the human experience, and the intricate ways in which they combine to foster, beyond the illusion of reality, a longing for truth. Her current projects examine more particularly the silence that sometimes emerges — fleetingly, unexpectedly — from the chaos of everyday life, and which seems to reveal the very essence of the world.