Solo exhibition

ENGRAMME

Montée des eaux, 2022, installation.

Dgino Cantin creates sculpture-installations that plunge viewers into a phantasmagorical and surreal world. Hybrid characters and objects of incongruous beauty populate the space, sparking wonder and surprise. Following his research and production residency at Engramme, Cantin proposes a body of installations where modes of expression and materials overlap. He begins by creating a polymorphous sculptural group which he deploys throughout the space as though branching out organically. Through superimposition and juxtaposition, Cantin evokes the fragmentary nature of dreams and the unconscious.

This project is supported by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.

Public Art

Place Sainte-Foy

La ville soudaine (le phoque), 2011-2012, installation. 

Dgino Cantin creates sculpture-installations that plunge viewers into a phantasmagorical and surreal world. Hybrid characters and objects of incongruous beauty populate the space, sparking wonder and surprise. Here, a seal is the setting for a surprising town, where the seasons follow the animal's movements. As an allegory for excessive urbanization or as a dreamlike location, the marine mammal offer us a new representation of what it means to identify with the land.