Canadian artist David Altmejd currently lives and works in New York. He completed a BA in Fine Art at UQAM in Montreal before undertaking an MFA at Columbia University in New York. For Altmejd, the process of making is paramount – he is interested in how the act of constructing an object and defying traditional material conventions generates meaning. Altmejd’s new bronze figures can be seen as evolutions of his ongoing series known as Bodybuilders. Originally modelled in plaster, the figures are scarred by the fissures torn through the plaster by the artist’s fingers and lean more towards the feminine, as evidenced by anatomical detail or attributes such as high-heeled shoes.