Le jardin d’après (The garden afterward)
Following the traces of the novel Le premier jardin by Anne Hébert
Photobook published with Éditions Loco
2021
This is a land on which a city sits. This is nature furtively taking back its place. An almost fictional city that is never named, that is barely seen anymore, but in which the beginnings of stories are to be found—pieces of truth and fiction as intangible as light touching a wall, the surface of water, or blossoming trees. Among elusive details, textures, life that climbs up buildings and spreads all the way to the streets, the city reveals itself as a character, as a woman’s body, hidden against the rigidity of structures. In this garden planted behind the great facades that watch over the river, invasive roles are sleeping, as are ephemeral, seasonal, or enduring lives.
Following the paths proposed in Anne Hébert Le premier jardin (1988), Anne-Marie Proulx draws freely from the way an old city of North America is imagined through the eyes of a woman inhabited by those who came before her: an actress who summons up different voices and lines that she has pronounced throughout her career and that accompany her in this new piece performed in the open air.
Le jardin d’après
Anne-Marie Proulx
14x20,5 cm
192 pages
Perfectbound, dustjacket
Black and white and colour photographs
Excerpt of Le premier jardin by Anne Hébert and theatre lines
ISBN 978-2-84314-042-6
Graphic design Marie Tourigny
Éditions Loco, Paris
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Press
Collectif blanc, “Traces vivantes”, Vie des arts, no 262, Summer 2021
Marie-Ève Charron, “Anne-Marie Proulx sur les traces d’Anne Hébert”, Le Devoir, 29 May 2021
Josianne Desloges, “Anne-Marie Proulx passe Le premier jardin au révélateur”, Le Soleil, 13 June 2021
Anne-Frédérique Fer, “Podcast : interview de Anne-Marie Proulx”, France Fine Art, 27 September 2021
Michel Hardy-Vallée, “Et fili? De la transmission culturelle et du livre photographique”, Ciel variable, no 119, Winter 2022
Didier Morelli, “Flânerie spirituelle et spectre visuel : la ville d'après Anne-Marie Proulx”, Le Sabord, no 120, Winter 2022
Louis Perreault, “Le jardin d’après, d’Anne-Marie Proulx”, Ciel variable, 23 November 2021
Laurence Perron, “Polar(oïd) : femmes filées, femmes filantes”, Spirale, no 278, Winter 2022
Élisabeth Recurt, “Le jardin d’après”, Ciel variable, no 119, Winter 2022
Emmanuel Simard, “Des voix dans le jardin”, Lettres québécoises, no 182, Fall 2021
Jean-Marie Wynants, “La ville qui était un jardin”, Le Soir, 7 December 2021
This book was made possible with the financial support of Première Ovation.
