Floating points by Kévin Dubeau

From September 6 to October 13, 2025, the Centre d'artistes Voix Visuelle will host the exhibition Floating points by Kévin Dubeau.


Opening: Thursday, September 11, 2025, at 5 p.m.
279 Montreal Road, Ottawa

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In numerical computation, a floating point allows to represent a number with flexibility, at the cost of an uncertainty. It is a value in motion, never quite exact, always partial. This shift, this margin of error, interests me—not only for what it says about calculation, but for what it reveals about our relationship with reality. It reminds us that all forms, all thoughts, all memory is an approximation.


At the heart of this exhibition, there are fragments of cars collected during wanderings, mechanical parts torn from their original function and altered by time. These objects carry the memory of forgotten journeys and the imprint of their exposure to bad weather. Their surface already tells a story, made of wear, rust and shocks, even before any artistic intervention.


These remains are confronted with forms resulting from digital modeling, volumes printed in 3D and images rendered on aluminum. Actual wear contaminates the calculated accuracy, as if time had infiltrated the software. We enter a universe where the car fragments and recomposes itself, becoming an interface between humans and the territory they cross.

Floating points refers to this unstable state: the one where the image no longer corresponds exactly to the object, where the machine’s memory contaminates matter, where the truth of a form is measured in approximation. In this floating space, structures blur and our perceptions, just like our emotions, participate in this shift, allowing not a certainty to persist, but an oscillation.

Kevin Dubeau is a visual artist based in Montreal whose multidisciplinary practice explores the materiality of images and objects through an aesthetic of simulation. His works question the relationships between digital technologies, perception and transformation of the material world.


Coming from the field of film postproduction, he now collaborates with established artists on public art projects. Holder of a master’s degree in Intermedia Cyberarts from Concordia University (2023), he has presented his works in Quebec, Germany, Argentina, Hong Kong and Seoul. He also recently participated in the Elektra 2025 festival at the PHI Centre, in Montreal.