Monique Motut-Firth is a visual artist and writer who lives and teaches in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is currently a MAA candidate in the Master’s of Applied Arts program at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design. She received her BFA in Fine Arts in 2010 from ECUAD, and her BA in Psychology in 2003 from UBC. Born into a distinctly mixed cultural heritage of French Roman Catholic and Russian Doukhobor, she developed a sense of critical curiosity surrounding pop-culture’s influence on cultural identity.
Current works investigate the use of collage and photomontage as critical strategies, rooted in the tradition of Berlin Dada artists, to decipher image culture. The resulting scrap-systems link, layer and weave together disparate image culutres, eras and signifiers, questioning the impact of images on identity construction.