Matthieu Brouillard is a visual artist born in Montreal. Since 2003, he has created photographic series, video installations, and films that combine documentary and staged scenes, reinterpreting aspects of mythology and pictorial tradition, primarily Baroque and Mannerist. Matthieu Brouillard studied visual and media arts and art theory at the University of Quebec at Montreal (Ph.D., 2013). He has lectured and been a visiting researcher at various universities and art schools, including the University of Zurich, the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, the Geneva University of Art and Design, and the University of Bern. His work has appeared in numerous publications (Ciel Variable, SHOTS Magazine, Samuel Beckett Aujourd’hui, Les écrits, etc.) and has been exhibited in many galleries and art institutions (VU, Dazibao, Oboro, Le Fresnoy, Kunsthalle Bern, PhotoforumPasquArt, iaab Projektraum, Art Gallery of Ontario, Musée de l’Élysée, etc.). He has published three photography books – Narragonie (2007), Darkness Implacable (2012), and Coming Through the Fog (2013; with Donigan Cumming) – and directed a feature-length documentary with surrealist, fairytale-like overtones, entitled Qu’importe la gravité (Whatever Gravity), which premiered at the 2017 Montreal International Documentary Festival and was subsequently screened at several international festivals and museums. He is currently working on a film entitled L’angoisse du héron (The Heron’s Anguish).