This polyphonic project brings together Ella Dawn McGeough, naakita f.k., Beau Gomez, Mélanie O’Bomsawin, Camille Richard, and Florencia Sosa Rey around things that vibrate, are beyond words, and can only be felt with the body.

Driven by a desire to value modes of being apart from the imposed reasoning of productivity, linearity, and rationality, the artists in the group take a vulnerable stance, opening their bodies and perceptions to energies in their environment. Through their practices, they cultivate reciprocal relationships with natural ecosystems, in which knowledge circulates through affect and experience, outside of hierarchical frameworks. In the exhibition space, their embodied and collective research transforms into gestures of memory and narrative. By emphasizing the power of sensory perceptions, the artists remind us that the intimate can also be political and structural. A sovereign space is established, one that interweaves other forms of support and solidarity with marginalized knowledge, worlds, and lives.

« Ella Dawn McGeough compose des univers où se tissent des liens de soutien subtils — voire imperceptibles — entre les corps, la nature et le cosmos. Dans 𝑁𝑦𝑚𝑝ℎ𝑒́𝑎, iel donne vie à un monde peuplé d’êtres hybrides, sculptés dans de la cire d’abeille mêlée à des matières organiques et à des objets trouvés. Avec 𝑀𝑖𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑙𝑒, une série de trois sculptures de grand format, le regard singulier de l’artiste envers les correspondances entre les éléments de son environnement s’accentue. La force d’attraction entre les matières s’intensifie et fait émerger des configurations intuitives — entre hallucinations et expériences magiques. Ces formes nous invitent à prolonger ce réseau d’interrelations insaisissables qui nous marquent et que nous influençons en retour. » - extrait du feuillet d’exposition par la commissaire Camille Richard

“Ella Dawn McGeough composes worlds in which subtle — even imperceptible — bonds of support are woven between bodies, nature, and the cosmos. In Nymphéa, they bring to life a world populated by hybrid beings sculpted from beeswax mixed with organic matter and found objects. […] With Miracle, a series of three large-scale sculptures, the artist’s distinctive gaze toward the correspondences among elements of their environment becomes more pronounced. The magnetic pull between materials intensifies, giving rise to intuitive configurations — somewhere between hallucination and magical experience. These forms invite us to extend this network of elusive interrelations that shape us and that we, in turn, influence.” — Excerpt from the exhibition leaflet by curator Camille Richard