Zakary Daoust

Conducted Feelings, 2023

Zakary Daoust-Bernier is third year Sculpture student at Concordia University. Born in Montreal, he has worked primarily sculpture. His line of works combines computer assisted 3D sculpture, woodworking and metal works. He builds small delicates sculptures meant to captivate the attention and bigger pieces meant to create a weird sense of fascination. He creates works to emanate the feeling of tangibly of movement in frozen objects. He also enjoys taking the form of his own fleshy tools into the pieces he produces; making his hands and making with his hands.

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Conducted Feelings (2023) is a constructed interwoven rendering from the fusion of 3D sculpting and metal-work that has taken a major place in Zakary Daoust-Bernier’s sculptural works. This work was built for a central column of a wide space; a supporting structure chosen for its great strength. Generally observed as obstructions of the free space of a gallery and any other types of tenement, it was used purposefully to hold Conducted Feelings like a vine growing around a wild tree. The piece consists of a web of copper tubing connected by multiple types of copper fitting. At the ends of these copper tubes were inserted tiny hands made from SLS 3D printed polymer plastic. The dozen of tiny hands were made from a model of the artist’s hand manipulated virtually and used to strike evocative poses. These poses range from the culturally significant; to the curiosity provoking; to the grotesque or sensual. The design of the web structure was made to resemble one of a residential water supply conduit typically used in urban construction, mimicking the connection of our life to the water mesh hidden throughout our houses and cities. The flow of life-sustaining liquid circulating all around us and inside and out of all.