Statement: andrine Pelletier borrows her creative and production processes from folk arts, from arts and crafts, ranging from their most worthy to their most trivial forms, as well as from DIY in order to conceive a corpus of free-standing works, all of which are underpinned by the notion of subversion and experimentation with the limits of materials. Trompe l’oeil effects and illusionism constitute simultaneously technical and metaphorical vectors which play a leading role in the formation of her works, whether they are works of stage scenography, displays or storytelling..