Art Souterrain, Montréal, 2011.
Soujardin / Undergarden (2010-2011)
Finalist project for the Scotiabank people's choice award 2011
Undergarden is a hanging garden lit with a
specific array of lights that enable it to grow and develop under the
conditions of confinement of the underground.
This artificial landscape reenacts natural phenomena to a point that can
seem absurd, but nevertheless sustains a quality of fragility intrinsic to
nature. Furthermore, this installation
is made with reused plants from the streets of Montreal and recycles hoarding
material of construction sites of the city.
Undergarden aims to push
the seasonal aspect of gardening and to bring it to life to the underground
during the winter. Would the underground
then become a more suitable place that you could call a park? Could you imagine calling it a landscape?