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Paysage EmballeToi! / EmballeToi! Landscapes 2012 - 3012

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


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.
 
 
 
 
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