The Expo at Montmorency Park

This print, made from imprints of objects found during my wanderings, serves as a process of reminiscence of my childhood spent walking on my parents’ farmland. It reflects the family heritage I’ve inherited and my desire to renew it in the present.

Here are two photographs from my mother’s childhood album, into which I have digitally inserted myself. I become the actor in memories that were told to me but are not my own. In doing so, I materialize orality: a living transmission of the past into the present, where stories are relived and reinterpreted..

Adèle is my grandmother. She and her house forget the past, but through objects and the memories of others, the past tries to resist. In this work, I evoke both persistence and oblivion, the transformation of a place that receives us into one that inhabits us.  

I invite you to take a moment.
Imagine the abundance of shores and forests delineating the boundaries of the province;
through this altered landscape, but also all around us. I invite us to take part in protecting
this natural heritage, the root of our collective foundation

Just like trees, our bodies change over time: they form folds and lines. Yet only humans are bothered by growing older. So I propose that we embrace our wrinkles and gray hair, for they are the portrait of our forests, adorned with leathery bark and falling leaves.