Laura St. Pierre
Artist Laura St. Pierre combines installation, sculpture, and photography to generate a narrative around the history of plants, living reminders of places and ecosystems threatened by human development. Originally from Saskatoon, where every year forest fires transform the region's boreal fores...
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Published in | Esse Vol. 99; no. 99; pp. 94 - 97 |
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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22.03.2020
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Summary: | Artist Laura St. Pierre combines installation, sculpture, and photography to generate a narrative around the history of plants, living reminders of places and ecosystems threatened by human development. Originally from Saskatoon, where every year forest fires transform the region's boreal forests, St. Pierre bears witness to humanity's disembodied relationship with nature and the devastating consequences of extractive policies on the environment and our future. In Spectral Garden, a photographic series developed over the past decade, St. Pierre highlights a kind of "archaeology of the future." Comprising plants and herbs gathered in Saskatoon and immersed in isopropyl alcohol to maintain their form and stop them from withering, Spectral Garden ensures the preservation of an emerging past. St. Pierre's latest photographic series, The Sowers, explores this reciprocity more specifically through a series of urban gardens resembling small makeshift greenhouses. Set in derelict buildings or asphalted courtyards, these ephemeral installations suggest a symbiosis, a mutual cross contamination, between the artificial and the natural. |
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ISSN: | 0831-859X 1929-3577 |