Outremondes
Solo Exhibition
January 24 – February 23, 2025
Vernissage: January 24, 5pm
Galerie Chiguer Art Contemporain, Quebec QC
Taking the form of dreamlike visual narratives, Outremondes brings together works that explore themes of disappearance and hidden worlds. Drawings made with pastel and charcoal depict transforming bodies where dreamed universes and species declared extinct species take root. Paper objects, composed of delicate plant motifs, take us on a journey on wooden walkways that seem to span worlds.
Between erasure and appearance, bodies interact with plants, insects, and landscapes. In order to preserve the memory of these vanished species, La Perrière reproduces them with precision and sensitivity. In her works imbued with poetry, at once gentle and tragic, flowers and insects take root or settle on anonymous human bodies, devoid of faces. The artist thus symbolically links the fate of these extinct species to the human species, who is primarily responsible for their extinction. Véronique thus invites us to reflect on the precariousness of each species, including our own.