Emmanuel Laflamme

Emmanuel Laflamme is a visual artist from Montreal whose practice explores the contradictions of contemporary culture. A self-taught artist, he has developed over the past decade a body of work that moves fluidly between collage, painting, installation, and video—where the visual worlds of consumer society, technology, and art history collide.

His work is distinguished by a playful use of juxtaposition and détournement. By reassembling images drawn from diverse sources—archives, advertising, classical iconography—he creates universes where past and future, the real and the virtual, merge and blur. This critical and ironic approach invites viewers to question their own relationship with images and the myths of modernity.

His work has been exhibited widely in Canada, the United States, and Europe, including in England, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. In 2024, he took part in a residency at the Kolaj Institute in New Orleans, where he began a series of collages that led to his first European solo exhibition, Le Théâtre de la Réalité, presented at Kalkman gallery in Maastricht in 2025.

Driven by a constant desire for visual and conceptual experimentation, Emmanuel Laflamme continues to investigate the power of images to shape our perception of the world and our relationship to reality.