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Montreal-based visual artist Claire Burelli transforms snapshots from everyday life into skewed glitch artworks and photographic collages. The artist’s portfolio, developed over the past two years, includes images that both distort reality and “push the limits of contextualization.”

As Burelli told The Creators Project, her photographs are meant to spark “a discussion with the image’s architecture.”  In her Archi-réminiscence series, for example, the artist employed an iPhone 4s application capable of simulating the trace of a scanner to stretch this discussion into a “dialogue of construction and deconstruction.” She then took photos, first capturing commercial buildings, and then “quite different architectures” to divine whether “we need all the information that reveals a photo,” or if we can “settle for the bare minimum in order to grasp its meaning.” The result is a visually chaotic image series in which walls leak their pigments, boundaries blend, and windows wiggle.

From the Archi-réminiscence series

For her Aigre-Doux series, the artist turned to archival photographs and collaged them into the images you see below. Burelli juxtaposes found pictures with her own photos to form a collection of complex, composites which blur the boundary between the old and the new.

From the Aigre-doux series

Below, check out more of our favorite images from Claire’s website:

From the Éclats series.

From 
Archi-réminiscence

From Aigre-doux

Aigre-doux

From the Shades of Blue series

From the Ancêtres series

From Irréalités

For more glimpses of her glitched-out visions, visit Claire Burelli’s website. 

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