Born in 1956 in southern France, Martine Birobent has since moved to Canada, first in the bohemian Montreal district of Plateau Mont-Royal, and more recently opening La Galerie des Nanas in Danville (QC). She has mainly been active in Montreal, participating in many solo and group exhibitions, working live on TV or building art-cars. She paints, sculpts resin constructions on recycled materials structures, she also does textile and knitted works.

Birobent is extremely difficult to corner. She is part of a non-academic new generation of outsiders, sometimes attracted by pop surrealism. She has a very strong signature, one of a women artist in her fifties, having worked in poor surroundings elementary schools a large part of her life, and reacting to our world in a very unique bitter-sweet way.

Muzzled Dolls (2009)

« I’ve stopped smoking again and I’m rebuilding myself one knot and the time, slowly, painfully. 50 knots for 19 puffs. My lips are sealed and my fingers sore. I’m filling this emptiness and addiction giving birth to new born burning babies and fighting womens trapped in their own web. I’m seeking to give them out trough International adoption. Help me ! Help them ! »