Quebec, Canada, 1973.

Lives and works in Rennes (France) and Montreal (Canada).

Fortier, in addition to a master’s degree in visual arts from the University of Quebec, graduated in perfumery from the Le Cinquième Sens school in Paris. In her beginnings she makes video and performance focusing on showing the passage of time in her works through erasure and absence. Later she began to introduce aromas, fragrances, or culinary and olfactory demonstrations into her work, using smells to build images. Through the smells, she relates the images with a memory and its narration. The volatile nature of odors is linked to the absence and erasure that she experienced in her early video and installation works.

Her works have been exhibited at: The Emily Harvey Foundation in New York; at the Tolerie in Clermont-Ferrand; At the Museum of Fine Arts in Rennes; at night Blance Toronto; Lille 3000 in Tripostal; the CNEAI in Châteou and the Panacée in Montpellier; at the Chateau de Oiron or the Rurart de Rouille art center among others.