Alex Turgeon (b. 1988, Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian artist based in Berlin. He received his BFA from Emily Carr University in 2010. Turgeon’s artistic practice operates at the intersection of poetry, performance and sculptural installation by way of extrapolating poetry out of the seemingly benign conditions found within domestic industries, allegorical narratives based in folklore and fairy-tale, definitions of sexuality and masculinity as well as ideologies defined through the economies of capitalism. His work has been presented at the Tate (Liverpool), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Trans Art Triennial, Center, Ashley, Éclair, Spike Art, After the Eclipse, Blackland, Babes Bar (Berlin), Franz Kaka, Art Metropole (Toronto), Or Gallery (Vancouver), Proxy Gallery, Brown University (Rhode Island), as part of Poetry as Practice online exhibition hosted by Rhizome and the New Museum (New York), Contemporary Art Centre (Vilnius), Clearview Ltd., French Riviera (London), San Serriffe (Amsterdam), Tunnel Tunnel (Lausanne) and Toves (Copenhagen).
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Alex Turgeon (n. 1988, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canadá) vive e trabalha em Berlim. Formou-se pela Universidade Emily Carr em 2010. Em sua prática artística, Turgeon mistura performance, instalação e poesia extraída das condições – aparentemente benignas, encontradas nas indústrias domésticas, narrativas alegóricas baseadas no folclore e no conto de fadas.
Sexualidade e masculinidade, bem como ideologias definidas pelas economias do capitalismo também estão representas em seus trabalhos. Participou de exposições na Tate (Liverpool), Instituto KW de Arte Contemporânea, Tri-Arte Trans, Centro, Ashley, Éclair, Spike Art, Depois do Eclipse, Blackland, Babes Bar (Berlim), Franz Kaka, Art Metropole (Toronto) ), Or Gallery (Vancouver), Galeria Proxy, Universidade de Brown (Rhode Island), exposição on-line Poesia como Prática, organizada por Rhizome e New Museum (Nova York), Centro de Arte Contemporânea (Vilnius), Clearview Ltd., Franch Riviera (Londres), San Serriffe (Amesterdão), Tunnel Tunnel (Lausanne) e Toves (Copenhaga).
