CONTEMPORARY GARDENS

Forêt corallienne

DESIGNERS / LUCIE BULOT,  DYLAN COLLINS

YEARS OF EXHIBITION / 2020  – 2021

THEME MÉTISSAGES

photo: JC Lemay

Project description

Forêt corallienne is an installation that offers visitors a surprising experience: a coral reef in the forest of Metis. By navigating through this installation, visitors observe the strangeness of this unusual landscape, the surprising combination of organic forms and the contrast of colours and textures.

This is not a superposition that we are witness to, but a strange kind of hybrid, a symbiosis, the métissage of two organisms to become one. From this, what complex and invisible life forms will this new community bring? How do you explain this phenomenon? In the middle of the forest, dozens of corals grow on a carpet of plants and on the trunks of trees. Is this some kind of survival instinct that has pushed these limestone creatures to leave their native underwater habitat to establish in a forest environment We know that corals, like trees, are superorganisms, living in a community where the collective takes form from the individuals that comprise it. Is this a new community, at once plant, mineral and animal that is emerging before us?

DESIGNERS / LUCIE BULOT, DYLAN COLLINS

Lucie Bulot is an interior architect HMONP, a graduate of the École nationale supérieure d’architecture (ENSA), Paris-Val de Seine. Dylan Collins is an architect DE, graduating from l’ENSA Paris-Malaquais. They have lived and worked in Montreal since 2019. Their collaborative work began in 2017 with the creation of their garden installation Éternelles éphémères as part of the Festival International des Jardins de Chaumont-sur-Loire. In 2019, they created Neiges éternelles where they encased the bust of King Louis XIV, installed at the centre of the Place Royale dans le Vieux-Québec, in a snowball as part of the Passages Insolites event. In each of their ten collaborative projects, they strive to advance the production of architectural and landscape, all the while exploring new fields of enquiry like art installations and writing.

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