Veronique d’entremont (they/them) is a trans-disciplinary artist and visual storyteller whose practice spans devotional sculpture, hybrid documentary, ritual/performance, and inter-species collaboration. The artist descends from a line of Sicilian women who are either blessed with spiritual gifts or cursed with bi-polar disorder, depending upon who you ask. Approaching personal content as both a research and a spiritual practice, d’entremont creates objects and interactive installations that examine poetic entanglements across the veil of life and death. Through decentering dominant narratives and claiming queer ancestry with human and non-human kin, d’entremont seeks pathways toward healing our relationships with ourselves, each other and the lands on which we live. Looking to syncretic traditions in Sicilian Folk Magic, pre-Christian deity veneration and other earth-based practices, they discover materials and adapt arcane processes in their own studio practice. Whether an artwork is composed of cemetery dirt and human cremains, or burnout castings designed to release a curse, d’entremont believes objects can hold memory and that a sculpture can also be a spell.
veronique d’entremont graduated from UCLA in 2012 with an MFA in Sculpture, and Massachusetts College of Art in 2005 with a BFA in Sculpture and Art Education. They have been supported by numerous awards and residencies including a Joan Mitchell Fellowship in 2012, a Social Practice Art projects grant in 2016, and residencies at BANFF, The Joan Mitchell Center, ACRE, SPACES Cleveland, Mesa Refuge, Los Angeles CleanTech Incubator, The Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and The Berwick Research Institute. Currently d’entremont is participating in the studio residency at the Boston Center for the Arts and is in the process of co-creating an experimental artist residency in their late father’s home, on the shore of a secluded pond in New Hampshire.
Artist instagram: @verohneek
Artist website: www.artveronique.com
Headshot photo credit: TARIK BARTEL www.katytarika.com
