Candelabra, 2021

Genesis Belanger   Emerging artists

Genesis Belanger creates psychologically charged scenes featuring unique interpretations of everyday objects. Using a variety of materials and techniques—such as porcelain, stoneware, metal, wood, upholstery, and painting—she crafts tableaux that inhabit transitional spaces, evoking a sense of numbed capitalist productivity.

Her work explores how American advertising manipulates psychological responses, the complexities of consumerism, the erosion of privacy in the digital age, and coping mechanisms for modern anxieties. Often serving as stand-ins for human emotions or experiences, Belanger's three-dimensional pieces, while drawing from the legacies of artists like Claes Oldenburg and Robert Gober, specifically address how capitalist narratives impact the gendered psyche.

Belanger has had solo exhibitions at the Consortium in Dijon, France (2021), the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut (2020), and the New Museum's Storefront Window in New York (2019).