Grace Papineau-Couture

Grace Papineau-Couture is a Canadian artist from Edmonton, Alberta, currently based in Chicago, Illinois. Working across sound, installation, and performance, Grace pulls at the threads of folk horror—a genre that explores tensions between modern life and archaic fears—uniquely merging the physicality and ephemerality of analog audio and folk storytelling to explore modern ritual and superstition. With a material interest in using sound as raw material, Grace dismantles historic rituals and superstitions through the creation of field recordings, sampling and handmade uncanny instruments.