Birobent's photostream

Born in 1956 in southern France, Martine Birobent has since moved to the bohemian Canadian and Montreal district of Plateau Mont-Royal, where she occupies a mosaic covered studio in an alley. She has mainly been active in Montreal, participating in many solo and group exhibitions, working live on TV or building art-cars. She paints, sculpts resin constructions on recycled materials structures, she also does textile and knitted works.

Birobent is extremely difficult to corner. She is part of a non-academic new generation of outsiders, sometimes attracted by pop surrealism. She has a very strong signature, one of a women artist in her fifties, having worked in poor surroundings elementary schools a large part of her life, and reacting to our world in a very unique bitter-sweet way.