CV121 - Sébastien Michaud, Les jardiniers de la forêt — Mathieu Teasdale
Ciel variable 121 - Wanderings (Fall 2022
Exhibitions (Individual article, digital version)
Sébastien Michaud, Les jardiniers de la forêt
Maison de la culture de Pointe-aux-Trembles, Montreeal
19.03.2022 — 15.05.2022
— Mathieu Teasdale
Walking a line between photographic documentary and narrative installation, the exhibition Les jardiniers de la forêt featured the forestry workers with whom Sébastien Michaud spent time to make the trilogy of books titled Forest Gardeners. “The forest photographed by Michaud ... is ... shaped by humans, as these workers take part in the cycle of growing and cutting trees,” writes Mathieu Teasdale. In his view, the exhibition “belongs to a truly contemporary movement,” which does not consider natural resources solely from an economic perspective. Thus, “looking at, observing, and thinking about trees leads to reflecting on and reinventing the place of all living things in the world,” Teasdale concludes, “and particularly the place occupied by human beings.”
Details
Language : English & French
Digital Version : PDF, 1,7 Mb
Bibliographical Notice
Mathieu Teasdale, “Sébastien Michaud, Les jardiniers de la forêt” in Ciel variable, No. 121, “Wanderings”, Montreal, 2022, p. 95-96.