Sabrina Ratté (Canadian, b. 1982) is a digital artist working across 3D animation, analog video, printmaking, sculpture and installation.,Her practice explores the perceptual and material boundaries between physical and virtual worlds, drawing on ideas from technology, philosophy and speculative ecology. She is based in Montreal and lived and worked in Paris for six years.
In 2014, Ratté directed Sightings: Littoral Zones, a six-minute digital video screened at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York as part of a program on artists' responses to space and isolation.In 2021, she contributed Floralia to the group exhibition “The flowers I have never seen in my garden”, staged on the virtual platform Mozilla Hubs, in which extinct plant species are preserved and displayed within a glitching virtual archive room.
In 2019, Ratté was longlisted for the Sobey Art Award, Canada's award for contemporary art, and received the prize in 2020.In 2022, she presented “Prométhée”, in which cyborg and goddess figures embody the concept of a 'monad', each a fragmented mirror within a larger reality.That same year, she also presented “Aurae”, an exhibition-experience combining video projection, 3D animation, printmaking, photogrammetry, sculpture and spatial installation.,
In late 2024, her work featured in “Nouveaux environnements: approcher l'intouchable”, a group exhibition of 3D-modelling and virtual reality work by Quebec artists at the Chroniques biennale in Marseille.That year, she also presented Inflorescences at Fotografiska Shanghai, a series of videos and sculptures made from electronic waste that imagines plants, mushrooms and unknown creatures inhabiting a future without humans.Curator Diane Drubay has cited works by Ratté, alongside those of Manon Pretto, as examples in writing on synthetic trauma and the poetics of erasure, in which glitch and erasure become tools for repair.Ratté's work is held in the collection of the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal and has been exhibited at institutions including the Centre Pompidou, the Museum of the Moving Image and HEK – Haus der Elektronischen Künste.
