Artistic statement
Aurélie Pedron seeks to contribute to the balance of individuals and societies by creating immersive installations that invite viewers to slow down. Challenging the subjective notion of “reality,” her works offer experiences of expanded states of consciousness, oscillating between meditative states, reconnection with the deeper self, disorientation in space and time, and hallucinatory sensations.
The artist has developed a distinctive expertise in bringing together teams from radically different backgrounds and social contexts, enriching the complexity of the works she co-creates with her collaborators. Through carefully orchestrated combinations of materials, she composes what she calls “system-works.” The materials involved are interdependent and set one another into motion in a constant search for balance, much like natural ecosystems. These materials often include the bodies of the audience themselves.
The body is central to her practice. It is the grounding site of the artistic experience. By placing the viewer’s body in carefully constructed spatial situations, Aurélie challenges what we take to be real, disrupting the rational mind and opening the way to expanded states of consciousness.
Aurélie embraces values that quietly inform her artistic processes without ever becoming overt demonstrations. Encounters with people whose lives have followed unconventional or traumatic paths, together with her commitment to studying under a Taoist master atop a mountain in China, have profoundly expanded her understanding of existence. These lived experiences shape the foundations of her creative process from within.
Land Acknowledgement
The city in which we live and work, named Tio’tia:ke by the Kanien’keha:ka and Mooniyaang by the Anishnaabe people, finds itself on a territory that has not been ceded. We are conscious of the distance that separates us from the values of the First Nations communities, and notably from their primordial notions of interdependence with all wildlife, the ground on which we stand and its waters, for which they are the original and true guardians. We mean to honor these values with our actions and words today.
Aurélie Pedron
A graduate in dance from UQAM, where she completed a bachelor’s degree followed by a research-creation master’s degree on emergence in creation, Aurélie Pedron founded Lilith & Cie in Montréal in 2013. In 2026, the company became Création Fractale. Aurélie Pedron is its artistic and executive director.
Since 2019, she has been receiving the teachings of the disciples of a Taoist master and, since 2024, those of the master himself, at a temple in the Wudang Mountains in China. This traditional training engages the body as much as the mind. It shapes her view of the world and her interest in existence and mystery, which lie at the source of her work.
Her early works immediately stood out for their experimental and immersive nature, before her practice gradually turned toward multidisciplinary installation. ENTRE (Tangente, 2014) is a blindfolded nano-performance for one spectator at a time. It earned her the Prix de la danse de Montréal in the Révélation category. She went on to create LA LOBA (Danse-Cité, 2016), ANTICHAMBRE (Agora de la danse, 2019), INVISIBLE (OFFTA, 2022), a 72-hour performance, and FORÊT (2024), designed with blind and visually impaired people.
Today, the company’s works belong more to contemporary art than to the performing arts: they are essentially immersive installations. INFINITUDE, currently in creation, will be presented at EISODE in 2027.
Alongside this work, she leads projects with people who have lived through trauma, who live on the margins, or who choose to stand apart from society. She created RÛE and MARGE (DARE-DARE, 2014–2015) with young people from atypical backgrounds, followed by INDEEP (2016), in which the same youth performed blindfolded for ten hours. She also created TRAJECTOIRES (2021–2023) for young newcomers.
With Inuk sculptor Simiuni Nauya, whom she met in 2016, she created DANS LE CŒUR DU HÉRON (2021). This encounter marked the beginning of relationships of trust that she has been building for several years with Simiuni Nauya, and later with Robbie Madsen. These bonds are what make her creations with First Nations and Inuit artists and communities possible. Robbie describes their collaboration as a “treaty partner” relationship. From these collaborations came WHEN WAS_the last time you sang? (2025), an immersive and interactive sound installation controlled by the voice of Robbie Madsen, a Two-Spirit Cree artist. MEMORIES MAP and I’M SIM are currently in creation.