Le premier jardin
Le jardin d’après
Être jardin
Photographs and videos
2015-2021
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.
Book
—Le jardin d’après, Éditions Loco, Paris, 2021.
Exhibitions
—Être encore, presented in the exhibition of the MNBAQ Contemporary Art Prize 2025, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec, 2025.
—Être jardin, curated by Marie J. Jean, VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine, Montréal, 2023.
—Ciels racines, Arprim, Montréal, 2022.
—Le premier jardin, Espaces F, Matane, 2020.
—Livre imaginé, curated by Simon Paradis, Aire libre, Montréal, 2016.
