Exposition à la Fonderie Darling - un lieu d'arts visuels en art actuel / Exhibition at the Fonderie Darling - a visual arts venue in contemporary art
note :
l'oeuvre qui a eu ses débuts en 2017 à la Fonderie Darling, va être re-créer et ré-installer en 2024, détail à venir
the artwork that began in 2017 at la Fonderie Darling , will be recreated and re-installed in 2024, details to come
Paysage EmballeToi! / EmballeToi! Landscapes 2012 - 3012 - ( 1000 ans, 1000 years) de / by Nicole Fournier
– bioremediation
and fertilisation cleaning processes by soil, microorganisms and plants
as symbiotic systems. Petrolium based synthetic textiles from used
winter coats destined to landfills, soil (clay, sand, humus, compost),
microorganismes, insects, a biodiversity of plants (goldenrod, aster,
agastache, mint, artemesia, mothe- rwort, yarrow, ground elder,
jerusalem artichoke, morning glory, etc). 2012 – 3012 (1000 years)
photo de Stéphane Géhami
photo de Stéphane Géhami
photo de Stéphane Géhami
The
Montreal-based artist Nicole Fournier’s work extends outwards from an
awareness of interconnected life-forms. Her long-term work of rewilding
her land, situated in the midst of a typical suburban neighbourhood, has
generated various ecosystems from which she witnesses the performances
of plants, microbes, and other life-forms that have taken root there.
The
«EmballeToi!» project began from the premise of re-using discarded
synthetic winter coats destined for landfill. Fournier introduces the
coats onto the land, and allows the soil, insects, and plants to embed
themselves on and within these unnatural forms of human insulation. This
has led her to hypotheses about the possibility for this system of
soil, plants and microorganisms to perform a process of bioremediation
of the microplastics from these synthetic materials, which are polluting
life in the oceans on a cellular level.
The first
adaptations of EmballeToi! have been evolving now for five years on
Fournier’s suburban land, where the discarded winter coats have been
buried, grown over, and artistically and manually transformed into
containers that act as mobile homes for fragmented ecosystems of a
biodiversity of plants, soil, microbes and insects.
Fournier
presents this artwork as a performance and a long-term installation
(1000 years ) that will continue these processes of urban rewilding,
bioremediation and fertilising the land proximate to the Fonderie
Darling, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, within The House of Dust exhibition
and beyond.
THE HOUSE OF DUST BY ALISON KNOWLES JUNE 15 to AUGUST 20, 2017
( en anglais seulement ci-dessous )
With
A Constructed World, Tyler Coburn & Byron Peters, Stéphane
Degoutin & Gwenola Wagon, Nicole Fournier, Jeff Guess, Martin Howse,
Allan Kaprow, Norman C. Kaplan, Jona- thon Keats, Alison Knowles,
Lou-Maria Le Brusq, Aurélie Pétrel, Joshua Schwebel, and Daniela
Silvestrin. Curators: Maud Jacquin and Sébastien Pluot, with Jeff Guess
and Art by Translation
