Alix Van Der Donckt-Ferrand makes drawings that circuit notions of desire, embellishment, strength, and aspiration. Her practice encapsulates a world of images and materials at nature’s threshold- the ambiguous space between real and hyperreal, as in GMOs, mortality, femininity, and gym bros. The artist embraces the inherent and strangely spiritual contradictions of origin, and meditates on its fundamental symbols across cultures. As such, in Ferrand's drawings, maize as the cornerstone of pan American food cultures holds as much inherent value as relishing in leg day at the gym. In equal measure reveling and concealing, the artist's drawings layer meaning as an exercise of narrative power.

Alix Van Der Donckt-Ferrand (b. 1995, Montréal, Canada) lives and works in Montréal. She has been included in solo and group exhibitions at april april, Pittsburgh; Unit 17, Vancouver; Independent, New York; Chris Andrews, Montreal; Bridget Donahue, New York; Chozick Family Art Gallery, New York; ermitage, Montreal; Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York; Poundmaker Historical Museum, Saskatchewan; The Loon, Toronto; and Antonini Museum, Nasca, Peru.