[Fall 2025]
Sunday is Violet
by Fanny Bieth
Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montréal
27.02.2025 — 05.04.2025
[EXCERPT]
Presented in the Montreal premises of Galerie Nicolas Robert, the exhibition Sunday is Violet featured a series of works made in 2024 by Lorna Bauer, who combines photography, sculpture, and installation in her practice. Flowers were central to the show, and, as in a herbarium, each plant was identified. At first glance, the works seemed to be traces of strolls in a park or garden, but the material qualities of the images quickly drew more attention than did their subjects. Both photography and botany call upon us to appreciate the sometimes-unexpected splendours that light performs.
On the gallery’s tall white walls, four large-format prints shared the space with two works composed of hand-mirrored glass panels framing, respectively, one and three much smaller photographs. These two formats refer to different uses of photography: as art prints, made to be framed and hung on the wall, and as souvenirs that one can pick up and carry or, on the contrary, organize and keep. So, the two versions of a black-and-white photograph of a Scottish rose, whose luscious blossoming occupies the entire space of the image, called upon different kinds of reception. In a large format, Scottish Rose gave a full view of the details and variations of the rosebush.
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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: Sunday is Violet ]
Fanny Bieth is an author and a doctoral student in art history, specializing in photographic studies, at UQAM. In her research, she looks at the relations between psychiatry and the media of photography and film. She is the publishing coordinator for the magazine Captures.