Stéphanie Morissette: "Speculative Future" at Burlington City Arts

Work by Stamps alumna Stéphanie Morissette (MFA​’24) is featured in Speculative Future, a solo exhibition on view at Burlington City Arts (BCA) in Burlington, Vermont from February 14 — May 24.

In Speculative Future, Montréal artist Stéphanie Morissette explores the conflicting relationship between humans, nature, and technology. Combining insightful observation with dark humor, Morissette imagines a future where biological specimens and mechanical technology have merged to form new, hybrid species.

Morissette questions how nature could eventually develop if altered by humans. For her collection of sculptures, Bird/​Drones, the artist assembles and 3D prints her creatures in a manner reminiscent of biotech laboratories. In her series Birds of Prey, she illustrates various groups of Bird/​Drones as military formations in the style of 19^th-century naturalist John James Audubon’s Birds of America. Far in the future, paleontologists excavate and display fossils of these strange hybrids for further study.

Engaging in a form of radical imagination, Morissette’s Speculative Future questions the troubling realities and murky ethics underlying today’s scientific innovations in synthetic biology, genetic engineering, and military weapons.

Stéphanie Morissette: Speculative Future
February 14 — May 24, 2025
Burlington City Arts Center
135 Church Street, Burlington, Vermont 05401