charline dally lives and works in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal. A graduate of Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains (FR), their practice explores analogue video signals generated by electric currents to transform personal and scientific archival images. Rooted in exchanges with researchers as well as in intimate experiences, their work seeks to reveal otherwise invisible traces. Working with video, installation, sculpture, print and audiovisual performance, dally explores water both as a vital source of life and as a means of repair. In order to foster a state of listening and attention, they transform exhibition spaces into places of introspection, extending a deliberate invitation to slow down and relax the body.

Their work has been presented at the Musée d’Art de Joliette and the PHI Foundation (Montréal), as well as at Images Festival (Toronto), CTM Festival (Berlin), Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Montréal), and Ann Arbor Film Festival. Recent solo exhibitions include Chapelle XIV, Paris (dreamachine, 2026), Diagonale, Montréal (this womb of things to be, 2024), and Caravansérail, Rimouski (blue vessel, 2025). In 2025, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal invited them to create a new audiovisual performance with their duo, le désert mauve.

Gabrielle HB and charline dally form the duo le désert mauve. Inspired by the eponymous novel by poet Nicole Brossard, le désert mauve develops a sensitive relationship between sound and image through video works and performances, which shift back and forth between fluid landscapes, infinite horizons, and microscopic dances. charline dally’s abstract tableaux, created using 3D modelling and modular analog video synthesis, feature fluid, sparkling lo-fi images that play with our perception. Their inspirations include the pioneering practices of Hilma af Klint, the Vasulkas, Tauba Auerbach, and the hydrofeminist movement. Sound artist Gabrielle HB designs minimalist, enveloping spaces using precise gestures and concise systems. Using analog synthesis, voice, and digital tools, she takes inspiration from composers Éliane Radigue, Suzanne Ciani, and Pauline Oliveros. Her compositions are supple, luminous, and deliberately slow.

Artist Code: 2169