Lapointe’s recent works employ playful surrealism and a distinctly queer sensibility to depict vulnerable, gender-fluid, and nonconforming bodies engaged in enigmatic poses and gestures. Rendered in ink and embellished with found materials including shells, pearls, crystals, gold leaf, beads, and silk cocoons, the figures occupy richly textured surfaces that blur drawing, collage, and assemblage. Vintage fragments and ephemeral elements transform the body into a site of fantasy and metamorphosis, where fragility and resilience coexist. Resisting fixed identities, Lapointe’s figures are at once delicate and defiant, celebrating the complexity, beauty, and persistence of the deviant body.
