La résilience des végétaux
Sculpture and multi-disciplinary work that highlights the struggle of plants in a denatured environment, where life and death meet.
Émilie B. Côté is a multidisciplinary artist from Témiscamingue who works mainly in sculpture and two-dimensional organic works. Her exhibition La résilience des végétaux was born of a desire to highlight the struggle of plants in a denatured environment. Pieces of plaster and concrete inhabited by plants trying to survive are the starting point for her reflection, where life and death meet in an assembly of contradictory materials, giving way to a scene of beauty and ruin. Some of the staged pieces in this poetic installation include bones and concrete invaded by poly-pores, and deer that seem to be in search of a better life, adding a narrative aspect to the scene where the viewer becomes a witness.
"Based on an approach derived from gathering in the forest, I work with organic and plant matter, which I contrast with sterile, rigid materials to create pieces that convey my vision of a world where beauty rubs shoulders with ruin. My works are in themselves universes with several dualities; nature and urbanity, delicacy and rigidity, or more generally, life and death. But what interests me most is life. Life that is resilient and mute. Plaster and concrete, resolutely urban materials, meet bryophytes, that great family of mosses and lichens, then polypores, the fungi that grow on trees. The idea of an arid surface being invaded by a living organism is a recurrent aspect of my work. It punctuates the space of small rebirths, where death gives way to new life in an eternal cycle of recommencement. The works represent the vegetation that we try to control, but which with a minimum of means, manages to regain its rights."
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