Petits fruits (Berries)
In conversation with Tanya Lalo PenashuePresented in the exhibition d’une poignée de terre, in a handful of soil
Curated by Noémie Fortin
Adélard, Frelighsburg
17 May — 9 November 2025
Exhibition presented in the Frelighsburg Methodist Cemetery, 42 chemin de Saint-Armand
“We remember the places where we gathered in the past, we welcome the darkness of disappearances and the spaces that it creates in us. Fire accompanies farewells, consumes regrets. Our grandmothers depart but still keep watch. They remind us that we will soon see new berries appear.” — AMP
Petits fruits weaves a visual and aural conversation around the land, sharing, and transmission. The photographic installation deployed at the edge of the cemetery accompanies excerpts of a dialogue between Anne-Marie Proulx and her friend Tanya Lalo Penashue, in which they revisit the landscapes where they picked berries in the past. Carpets of red seeds, cloudberry brambles, and wild-blueberry bushes—each memory evokes the heritage of their grandmothers, who taught them gestures and knowledge, inscribing berry picking in a relationship with the land that is both intimate and intergenerational.
Rooted in a reflection on cyclicity, between disappearance and renewal, the conversation that takes place in Innu-Aimun and French underscores the passage of loved ones who have departed but whose presence is still felt. Even as the words exchanged resurface the memories that relate them to the territory, the images are offered as witnesses to reappearances to come: those of the berries, perhaps, but also the connections that are created despite distances and in liminal worlds.
— Noémie Fortin, curator
Prints : Lamcom, Beyond Digital, Proséri
Stones : Pierre et monuments St-Marc
