how flowers fall when they die, 2024

Installation (series of five sculptures). 
Hand carved and cnc cut wood sculptures, assembled from several pieces of canadian cherry and canadian maple.
Dimensions: 48” x 72” x 2” / 122 cm x 183 cm x 5 cm.





There is a language to be found in nature, it’s talking to us in shapes and movements.

How flowers fall when they die is an installation, composed of an ensemble of wood sculptures, a filmed performance and a series of drawings. This work is inspired by the idea of connections and synchronization between all beings. I like Donna Haraway's term ‘cosmological performance’. Observing the forms plants take when they slowly go back to the ground that brought them up, I want to propose the idea that, through these movements, there is something to be learnt for us, humans. A new language, experienced from our spatial sensitivity and from encounters with other materialities, with other façons d'être au monde. Something about the power to let go, rooted in the tension between life force and decay; an endless cycle of deaths and rebirths embodied in the végétal world. From experiencing these movements expressed in nature, from experiencing our own body and presence with this spatial and corporeal language, there is a way to learn how to die.

Documentation from exhibitions at the Art Mur Gallery (Montreal, QC), the VAV gallery (Montreal) and with the Soft Square gallery (Montreal).