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Bronson Smillie is a Montréal-based artist whose practice operates at the intersection of drawing and sculpture, transforming found and obsolete objects into works that explore material culture, time, and memory. Engaging dormant objects that are often analog castaways of late-capitalism’s obsession with digital efficiency, Smillie formulates his own visual systems of logic and mark-making to release the object from its defunct state, side-stepping the original function to centre their aura.

Smillie composes works by selecting elements that share formal rather than functional affinities. This intervention, more a delicate adjustment than a complete dismantling, valorizes and highlights a shared material past that undermines function-based hierarchies. The result is a playful reverence for time passing, and its imprint on an object, as its cultural relevance and usefulness diminishes. A graduate of Concordia University’s BFA program in painting and drawing, Smillie has exhibited widely across Canada and the United States, with recent solo exhibitions at Pangée (Montréal), Afternoon Projects (Vancouver), and april april (Brooklyn).