Martine Bertrand is a visual artist of the Montreal region whose career also blooms internationally. Her first medium being textile, she created, early in her career, dance costumes for opera houses such as the Milan Teatro alla Scalla, the Paris National Opera, the Munich Opera, The Stuttgart Opera and the Norway Opera. All while continuing her personal production, Martine Bertrand creates for the cinema industry. She notably worked with Denis Villeneuve for whom she conceived the graphical language of the extraterrestrials in the movie Arrival, as well as murals and decorative elements of the sets of the movies Dune and Dune : Part Two. Martine Bertrand gives herself with consistency and energy to drawing and particularly loves Chinese Ink, embroidery and collage. Some artworks transform in narratives formed by the grouping of small anonymous and piled up characters that still manage to express their unicity. Those sequences of small characters become life scenarios. Since the needle still is her main tool, the seamstress’ thread still constantly slides between the papers.
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