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ON THE
TERRACE

LICHEN by Marie-Pier Gauthier-Manes,
Chloé Isaac, Victor Roussel, Montréal
(Québec) Canada / Paris, France
Photo credit: JC Lemay

GRAVITY FIELD by TERRAIN WORK [Theodore Hoerr,
Rebecca Shen, Kelly Watters], New York, États-Unis
Photo credit: JC Lemay

Inauguration of the 23rd International

Garden Festival of the Reford Gardens

Grand-Métis, Quebec, Canada

he five new gardens of the assault (Forteresses by Maison029: Mer du vent by Emmanuelle Loslier and
International Garden Festival, Eadeh Attarzadeh, urban planner and Camille Zaroubi, landscape architects
Tpresented at the Reford Gardens designer and Lorenzo Saroli Palumbo, and musicians from Montreal. Their
/ Jardins de Metis until October 2 2022, architect from Montreal); earthenware installation, Miroirs acoustiques, created
are inspired by the theme "Adaptation", a rings change colour, as lichen does, to in 2021, is again presented on the site of
reality we are facing, especially in the last adapt to the conditions in which they are the International Garden Festival.
two years. To live and survive, humans, placed (Lichen by Marie-Pier Gauthier-
like nature, must show adaptation and Manes, environmental designer from New gardens of the International Garden
resilience. Twelve designers from Canada, Montreal and Chloe Isaac, ceramacist, Festival
France and the United States invite and Victor Roussel, 3D artist from Paris); FORTERESSES by Maison029 [Eadeh
visitors to come and reflect on this daily sunflowers planted upside down, from a Attarzadeh, Lorenzo Saroli Palumbo],
challenge. ceiling of spheres, turn towards the sky Montreal (Quebec) Canada.
Wooden fortresses encircle a few to grow as they should (Gravity Field by The romantic notion of believing that
trees to protect them from human Terrain Work: Theodore Hoerr, landscape forests spared from all human contact and
architect, Kelly Watters, landscape interference will thrive has unfortunately
designer and Rebecca Shen, designer been disproven. As long as humanity
from New York); eight planted hills rise persists on its present course, it has
to reveal what is crawling under our feet become unrealistic to expect our forests
(Les huit collines by ONOMIAU: Noel to defend themselves.
Picaper, architect from Paris); finely cut Forteresses is a symbolic intervention
wooden slats are assembled in the heart of within the forest, proposing an aggressive
an intriguing structure to question, those method to protect our flora from its
who will cross it, the use of the forest and greatest predator: ourselves. The geometry
the space, on the possible cohabitation of each modular defensive system adapts
between the resources of the territory to the size, type and age of each tree.
and the human (Forêt finie, espace Forteresses is meant to be appreciated for
infini? by Antonin Boulanger-Cartier, the beauty of its geometries in addition
Pierre-Olivier Demeule, Melaine Niget, to encouraging visitors to question the
architecture interns from Quebec City). impact they have on their environment
In addition to the 27 contemporary and reminding them that our flora is often
gardens presented at the Jardins de unable to protect itself.
Metis, a satellite installation, made up of Graduates of McGill University, Eadeh
156 recycled glass bottles fanned out in Attarzadeh is an urban planner and
FORTERESSES by Maison029 [Eadeh front of the Centre d’art de Kamouraska, urban designer at Stantec and Lorenzo
Attarzadeh, Lorenzo Saroli Palumbo], captures the wind from the open sea and Saroli Palumbo is an architect at Atelier
Montréal (Québec) Canada emits melodies reminiscent of foghorns: d'Architecture Saroli Palumbo inc.
Photo credit: Charlotte Garneau

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