[Fall 2025]
Thematic presentation
by Jacques Doyon
Le monde végétal est ici l’objet d’une investigation attentive. Fleurs et plantes de jardins, de terrains et de territoires alentour sont scrutées, étudiées, enregistrées, quelquefois manipulées, pour tenter de saisir le microcosme de vie qu’elles abritent. Fruits, fleurs, feuilles et branches, mais aussi insectes, champignons, oiseaux… servent ici de toile de fond à une projection de nos inquiétudes quant à notre relation à l’environnement. / In this issue, the plant world is under attentive investigation. Garden flowers and plants, and the terrains and territories around them, are examined, studied, recorded, sometimes manipulated, in an attempt to capture the living microcosm that they are home to. Fruits, flowers, leaves, and branches – and insects, fungi, and birds – serve as a backdrop against which to project our anxieties about our relationship with the environment.
Sara Angelucci
Nocturnal Botanical
With her details of mixed foliage, flowers, and fruits flattened into the foreground of the image against an unfathomable black background, Sara Angelucci takes us deep into a garden, her eye at plant height – as if we were beside her as she gathers vibrant compositions that are the antithesis of still lifes. For here, she is actually reconnecting with the living, after a period of mourning, and re-entering a relationship with the world that is as much aesthetic and sensory as based on an interest in botany and ecology.
with an essay by Sara Knelman
Sara A.Tremblay
Poids, plumes
This collection of excerpts from different works, a sort of composite survey, starts with a questioning, followed by a period of hesitation, then a crisis, and finally a change. Although somewhat autobiographical, Sara A.Tremblay’s work is also performative, as she uses her body as a unit of measurement for all things. It is presented as a vast mosaic of images captured through the seasons (of flowers and plants, alive or picked; small rituals performed in the garden; mini-installations that are like small altars of offerings; portraits; and more) accompanied by objects taken from nature.
with an essay by Charlotte Lalou Rousseau
Frédéric Lavoie
De visu
Here, the plant world is more all-encompassing: not enclosed garden but ecosystem in which diverse fauna and flora abound. And, as a true amateur naturalist (in turn entomologist, mycologist, and more), Frédéric Lavoie observes different species and composes visual inventories of them. These series of works are displayed in two ways: projections that re-create moments of slow observation and give a glimpse of life in action, and inventories or notebooks in which he accumulates great numbers of images.
with an essay by Josianne Poirier
[ Complete issue, in print and digital version, available here: Ciel variable 130 – PLANTS AND GARDENS]
[ Complete article in digital version available here: Thematic presentation: Plants and Gardens]