You won't solve the problem with an air freshener

Rooted in her practice as a printmaker, Montréal-based artist Dominique Pétrin creates immersive and highly graphic environments, often producing hundreds of individual prints for a single installation. For her exhibition at grunt gallery, the artist created a unique installation that acknowledged the architecture of the gallery space. You won’t solve the problem with an air freshener was created on-site and composed of silkscreened paper pasted to the gallery walls. Freely inspired by the history of ornamentation and pixelated digital aesthetics, Pétrin’s installations are often riotous in execution, creating an environment both vibrant and unsettling. This was the artists’ first solo exhibition in Vancouver. Pétrin delivered an artist talk, presented in partnership with the Audain Faculty of Art’s Visual Art Forums at Emily Carr University, on October 31, 2017.