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Biography
Throughout my career, I have been consistently interested in the relationship, juxtaposition, even the confrontation between the landscape and the traces we leave behind. For me, these places are works of the mind, repositories of memories and obsessions of the people who gaze upon it. My photographic work began with an interest in the urban landscape, more specifically the streets of my city, Montreal. This in turn led me to explore Montreal’s Mont Royal Park, an oasis in the center of the city, which embodied the stories of my childhood and layered them with the memories of all the other people who walked its pathways. On the mountain, I reconnected with a spiritual longing for my home prior to the linguistic and economic upheaval it was experiencing. I used infrared film to move the images away from reality and into the realm of the imagination. This project invited the viewer to consider the historical and cultural significance of place. This resulted in a monograph and exhibition. The Garden at Night began with an unplanned night in the Jardin de Métis, photographing the plants and pathways with a flashlight. My creative production focused on documenting the human experience of landscape and site, specifically botanical gardens after dark. This foray into the realm of darkness led to a six-year project that again moved me away from reality into a world of imagination and narrative. These images are my relationship to this world. There are three monographs and a travelling exhibition that were created for this project.
Administrative Region
Montréal
