Aaron Brodeur's 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.
Vitamin Chlorine is a metaphor for living within paradox. It names the strange chemistry required to
remain balanced in a world that is constantly mutating, oversaturated, and impossible to digest all at
once. Like a substance that is both nourishing and corrosive, it speaks to the adjustments we make to
survive, the subtle calibrations of mind and body, perception and emotion, that allow us to keep
moving within the noise. The works themselves often take on unusual, unpredictable forms, at times
venturing into states of unease, awkwardness or absurdity. They resist easy categorization, holding
space for multiple interpretations and remaining deliberately open-ended. Vitamin Chlorine is less a
remedy than a supplement, both a psychological state and a lived reality, where adaptation is not a
choice but a continuous act of becoming.
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.
Vitamin Chlorine is a metaphor for living within paradox. It names the strange chemistry required to
remain balanced in a world that is constantly mutating, oversaturated, and impossible to digest all at
once. Like a substance that is both nourishing and corrosive, it speaks to the adjustments we make to
survive, the subtle calibrations of mind and body, perception and emotion, that allow us to keep
moving within the noise. The works themselves often take on unusual, unpredictable forms, at times
venturing into states of unease, awkwardness or absurdity. They resist easy categorization, holding
space for multiple interpretations and remaining deliberately open-ended. Vitamin Chlorine is less a
remedy than a supplement, both a psychological state and a lived reality, where adaptation is not a
choice but a continuous act of becoming.
