Eric Ladouceur (download cv, pdf 104 kb)

Baron Brigitte de la banquise, échiqueté de fer et d'azur à L'ours d'argent vilené de gueules, 2010, Ford Ranger hood, print on vinyl, wood and steel,
104 x 142 cm

Whether through performance, drawing, installation, video or painting, the imagination of Eric Ladouceur belongs to the world of play and inherently holds a certain nostalgia for childhood. Using an imagery borrowed from advertising and the world of superheroes, he questions the stereotypes of masculine identity and iconography. He uses pornographic images circulating on the internet, figurines, broken glass, pubic hair and the hoods of a car transformed into a coat of arms. He is interested in various representations of power inherent in the myth of eternal youth and control the masses: "The body, hair and fetishism are the bearers of social values which I am trying to appropriate" he says. His work revolves around an interest in subversive images in which irony serves each time as a buffer. From this point of view, he highlights the contradictions inherent in the development of consumer products in a way that is at once critical, poetic and ironic.

Artist's website: www.ericladouceur.com/EricLadouceur.com/Accueil.html

ERIC LADOUCEUR