Solo Exhibition — Ælab: Gisèle Trudel and Stéphane Claude

The exhibition-laboratory Devenir-Hêtre by the artist research unit Ælab and teams toke place from May 11 to May 28, 2023.

Devenir-Hêtre

For the occasion, the Grantham Foundation for the Arts and the Environment created a unique alliance with MEDIANE, the Canada Research Chair in Arts, Ecotechnologies of Practice and Climate Change, to present for the very first time the exhibition-laboratory Devenir-Hêtre, by the artist research unit Ælab and teams.

The third in situ iteration of the annual installation of MEDIANE, an ongoing collaboration with Smartforests Canada, took place in a forest. This time, the focus was on visualizing drought periods of the beech tree. In changing climates, what are the effects of lack of water on this tree?

Thanks to a collaboration with Blandine Courcot (scientist, DOT-Lab, TÉLUQ University) and Marc-André Cossette (artist and doctoral candidate, Concordia University), the compositions made with numbers are variations in colors, shapes, lines and particles that express the forces and the thresholds of the tree and its environment. In an artistic connection with the tree essence of Fagus grandifolia, the audiovisual work has been presented outside in a scaffolding structure, a site open to construct dialogues between collectivities.

The community channel NousTV produced an exhibition coverage on the Devenir-Hêtre exhibition realized by the artist research unit Ælab.