Transpaysage
Danielle Bro-Morel
Transpaysage is an exhibition of digital photographs and installations; an artistic exploration focusing on our relationship with nature.
Danielle Bro-Morel has developed her own approach to digital photography. She creates combinations and amalgams of different viewpoints to depict a specific place. The result is a complex and highly detailed space created through the layering and transparency of multiple shots.
For this project, she explored various parks and gardens in London and the Eastern Townships with her camera. Her works explore ecological questions by revealing the space occupied by transient humans in these altered natural environments. Her photographs also demonstrate our profound connection to the environment and our visceral attraction to the vegetation that proliferates within our everyday objects.
The exhibition also features the installation "Dream of Flowers," composed of sixty assemblage sculptures created from plastic plants salvaged from thrift stores. Danielle Bro-Morel deconstructs and reassembles them to create a fictional herbarium suspended in space. The artist confronts visitors with the issue of the abundant use of plastic in our daily lives. For her, the plastic plants represent an intriguing paradox: a polluting material that imitates living matter while simultaneously representing the beauty of nature.
The artist hopes to encourage people to take the time to observe the subtle details of her works, much like observing the teeming life of a changing natural environment.
Danielle Bro-Morel lives and works in Montreal and the Eastern Townships. She studied visual arts at Cégep de Sherbrooke and continued her studies with a bachelor's degree in visual arts at the University of Ottawa, followed by a master's degree in visual and media arts at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Since 2023, she has exhibited her work at the artist-run centres Arts Sutton in Sutton and Articule in Montreal, where she is an artist member. She is also a member of L'imprimerie artist-run centre, where she practices photogravure.