Aaron Brodeur

Artist Statement

I was born a Xennial, a member of a microgeneration that sits on the fault line between two cultural epochs. My mind was wired in analog during my early development, then rewired as I came of age by the digital transformation that reshaped human experience. That formative dualism programmed how I perceive, giving me a capacity to process the world in multiplicity. As new information enters my consciousness, my instinct is to absorb and retain that content, favoring integration over exclusion.  This adaptive openness, forged together with neurodivergent sensitivity, makes me attuned to the layered complexity of the contemporary condition: a maximalist barrage of information, immediacy, and stimulation. The oversaturation can be disorienting, blooming into chaos. To stabilize that manic frenzy, I have built a conceptual structure guided by four tenets: wrongness, interiority, accumulation, and dialogue. This framework organizes my multidisciplinary practice and metabolizes the conditions of contemporary life into paintings, sculptures, and hybrid forms. It is how I process a paradoxical reality that is at once miraculous and frightening, comfortable and agonizing, transforming the totality of lived experience into tangible form.

The tenets begin to take shape with wrongness as a generative mechanism toward creation. It’s an unconventional strategy that rejects the social performances of conformity and unsettles expectations by deliberately choosing “wrong” logic, flipping familiar associations and prompting us to question our thinking patterns.  The accumulations of images, ideas, materials and aesthetics are brought together in shared fields where incongruence coexists without hierarchy. Inward orientation lends the work conceptual depth and physical volume, while silently charging it with visceral presence, emotional weight and psychological introversion. Through composition and relational dynamics, the content and visual elements are hosted, inviting dialogue and curious associations as they interact within the field. My position is to orchestrate situations that deliberately diverge from convention, eliciting critical engagement. Traditional logic is suspended, disparate connections are given agency to coexist, and no easy answers are given to reconcile the tension.