Isabelle Mae-Yen Bredt (b. 1999)
I am a Chinese/Canadian artist based in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal), working primarily in photography and installation. My goal is to incite dialogue about photography as a discipline that transcends physicality, exploring its properties as both an object and a memory-like medium.
My art practice often employs ephemeral installations, using image-making as a conceptual framework. I am drawn to photography because of its capacity to evoke longing. A sensation that is rooted in the impossibility of possession, reflective of consumerist ideology where desire is continuously deferred. This is mirrored in my choice of materials: dissolving sugar, fragile rice paper, and unstable pigments. They mimic an urge, like the photographic impulse, to capture something that is already unreachable.
︎ ︎︎︎ isabellebredt@gmail.com
instagram ︎︎︎ @isabelliebred
I am a Chinese/Canadian artist based in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal), working primarily in photography and installation. My goal is to incite dialogue about photography as a discipline that transcends physicality, exploring its properties as both an object and a memory-like medium.
My art practice often employs ephemeral installations, using image-making as a conceptual framework. I am drawn to photography because of its capacity to evoke longing. A sensation that is rooted in the impossibility of possession, reflective of consumerist ideology where desire is continuously deferred. This is mirrored in my choice of materials: dissolving sugar, fragile rice paper, and unstable pigments. They mimic an urge, like the photographic impulse, to capture something that is already unreachable.
︎ ︎︎︎ isabellebredt@gmail.com
instagram ︎︎︎ @isabelliebred