Cécile Bouffard

Cécile Bouffard develops a sculptural practice that transforms familiar objects and gestures into forms that are simultaneously inviting and disconcerting. She draws from everyday materials, the body, and vernacular forms to create works that resist easy categorization, encouraging viewers to reassess their assumptions about function, identity, and perception. Her sculptures often inhabit a liminal space between the organic and the artificial, the tactile and the conceptual. Handles, contours, and surfaces evoke both comfort and tension, allowing ordinary objects to become uncanny, poetic, and mutable. Bouffard’s practice frequently engages with improvisation and relationality, as her works prompt interaction, gesture, or movement, exploring the dynamic exchange between object and viewer. Through these strategies, Bouffard interrogates the boundaries of materiality and perception, inviting audiences into environments where the familiar is destabilized and reimagined. Her work emphasizes the layered potential of form, touch, and space, creating immersive encounters that are as intellectually stimulating as they are sensorially compelling. ...