[Fall 2025]
Si tu ne te souviens pas, invente
by Nathalie Côté
VU, Québec
08.03.2025 — 20.04.2025
[EXCERPT]
The installation that Leyla Majeri presented at VU stood out for her aesthetic, her approach, and her method. Composed of a montage of short film sequences and four abstract sepia-tone photographic series, the exhibition was the result of her studies on new plant-based methods of image development.
This body of work grew out of research conducted during a residency at the Montreal artist-run centre L’Imprimerie. “These processes aren’t based on science,” Majeri explained to me during a private interview. “Research on methods is key to my investigations.” The procedures gave the corpus a sense of rarity, of being handmade as opposed to mass-produced. One might even say that her explorations distanced the images obtained from the mass-media banality that video and photography often succumb to. The pieces on display were the polar opposite of pictures produced by artificial intelligence.
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[ Complete issue, in print and digital version, available here: Ciel variable 130 – PLANTS AND GARDENS ]
[ Complete article in digital version available here: Si tu ne te souviens pas, invente]
Nathalie Côté is a regular contributor to art magazines. She is the coordinator of the community newspaper Droit de parole, the newspaper for working-class struggles in the central districts of Quebec City. She holds a master’s degree in art history from the Université de Montréal. From 1998 to 2008, she was a critic at Voir magazine in Quebec City and the newspaper Le Soleil.