Under the Soil, in the Stars

Bringing together a new series of paintings, accompanied for the first time by hand-carved wooden frames and objects, the exhibition introduces a new dimension to the artist’s practice, as her visual language extends beyond the pictorial space.

More narratively forward than her previous works, these new paintings depict moments of conflict, ascension, and transformation, without belonging to a fixed mythology governed by a clear distinction between good and evil. Hat-wearing wayfarers wielding swords and torches fight over ovoid objects, while tigers, flying fish, castles, ladders, gardens, and angels recur from one work to the next, at times familiar, at times transformed.

These interactions unfold according to a cyclical logic, in which bodies and matter continually pass from one state to another. Destruction does not necessarily mark an end, just as ascension offers no promise of reward. Passages and bands divide the paintings into interconnected zones, allowing different beings and temporalities to coexist within a single image. This spatial structure, which bears affinities with medieval narrative and devotional art, allows processes of dissolution, metamorphosis, and reconstitution to unfold simultaneously.

This exhibition is part of Pictura, Montreal's Painting Triennial.