Mara Eagle explores how Western philosophy and science have given rise to a concept of nature that has been adapted to industrialization, exploitation and colonialism. Through her multi-channel video installations, she investigates how practices of observation, description and representation create a dichotomy between nature and culture.

Photo credit: Mara Eagle

Alexia Laferté-Coutu’s sculptures are created by pressing clay or copper onto the surface of buildings, objects or historical monuments. They bear the marks of her hands, time, the environment and the deformations resulting from the process of transferring and reversing through different materials. Her practice reveals a dialogue between constructed narratives and sensory, intuitive experience.

Photo credit: Oana Stanciu

Joyce Joumaa deconstructs elements of the geopolitical situation that marked her childhood in Lebanon. She communicates her perception of politics through video, her principal medium, while exploring how moving images can translate complex histories and structures.

Photo credit: Clara Lacasse

Sylvie Cotton (in French) uses a variety of media in her practice, including performance and action art, drawing, installation and photography, writing and artist’s books. She is interested in encounters and presence, as well as their modes of appearance and embodiment. Her work focuses on the adventure of being present to oneself and to others, as well as to phenomena, whether material or immaterial, subtle or manifest.

Photo credit: Josée Lecompte

Nelson Henricks’ artistic universe includes photography, painting, drawing and video installations. Both poetic and ironic, Henricks’s work is experimental, but also grounded in popular culture. His new works express a quest to transfer materiality as a means of challenging conventions in aesthetics and representation.

Photo credit: Nelson Henricks

In recent years, Dawit L. Petros has devoted himself to a critical re-reading of the relationship between colonialism and modernism, through research on diaspora and postcolonial studies. These concerns stem from his lived experience. Petros was born to Eritrean emigrants, and lived in Eritrea, Ethiopia and Kenya before moving to Canada.

Photo credit: Dawit L. Petros