80:Émilie Gervais; Born Gervais - Mother's last name who come from a small town call La Tuque (Mauricie) and LaPierre- Father's last name who come from Ville Saint-Laurent was born in Montréal, Canada. Her father (Robert LaPierre) is an architect, her mother (Danielle Gervais) is an elementary teacher and her brother (Charles G. LaPierre) a music producer/artist and marketing strategist. Émilie Grew up in Montreal, Saint-Lambert, Mont-Tremblant, San Francisco and the south shore of Montréal before moving to Aix-en-Provence for her master's degree. , Gervais attended Collège Charles-Lemoyne in Ste-Catherine, the Lycée Français in San Francisco, and different public schools. After graduating from Cégep de Saint-Laurent and Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Gervais pursued her studies at the École supérieure d'art d'Aix-en-Provence in France graduating with a DNAP (BFA) in 2011 and a DNSEP (Master) in 2013.
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The uncompromising nature of
Gervais' work carries a strong message. Feminist artists have found a unique venue for free expression in the internet and Gervais is at the leading edge of that movement. She inverts and distorts the language and aesthetics of the primitive internet to create art that is
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was an online venue inviting artists to create new art objects from preexisting commercial products available from online stores. The idea was to expand the language of the art world by absorbing the products of new industries. The project was discontinued when the artists saw redundancy with the
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Conceptually, Gervais is most interested in the creative process. As part of her practice, Gervais tends to erase everything that she posts making her online presence both ubiquitous and ephemeral. Tracking down
Gervais' artworks requires browsing archives, mirror sites or following her closely
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in Berlin. The sculpture featured an iPhone displaying 3d rendered porn characters having a threesome in front of a pizza textured wall. The iPhone was embedded into an actual pizza. Visitors were invited to swipe through the digital images on display with their greasy fingers.
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