Onira Lussier

Onira Lussier approaches drawing as a practice akin to sculpture. She creates works in various formats, often in series, which she explores as texture-matter. Using graphite, she begins her compositions with repetitive hatching gestures on paper, forming dense, suspended, and delimited masses.

These drawings are then digitally processed, incorporating interlacing, juxtaposition, and layering effects, before sometimes returning to analog form.

Like an archaeologist uncovering artifacts, she reveals enigmatic shapes. Combining relief and shadow, color and graphic line, she composes abstract forms with organic appearances—sculptural volumes that evoke nested figures, archaeological fragments, limbs, or unconscious reveries.

Her practice centers on a graphic gesture rooted in the living world, where material and mental dimensions engage in a continuous cycle of constructing and deconstructing the trace. This back-and-forth between analog and digital disrupts perception, creating ambiguity: the viewer can never fully grasp the true nature of the image before them.

Her drawings thus become proposals for perceiving gesture—meditations on the fundamental relationship between humans and the line.