Today, the question of the environment is crucial. The Paris Agreement, rejected by the government of the United States; our oceans, now the planet’s garbage bins; the discussions around the electrification of mass and individual transportation; and the desire to end our dependency on fossil fuels are issues which have become a part of some artistic practices. This theme represents an opportunity to think about art in the environment more globally in order to express the flagrant problems with which we are confronted today. We might then think of erecting a laboratory of building and land art 3.0 (built, natural, social, historic, artistic, technological) for the 2019 edition of the Baie-Saint-Paul Symposium.

Her interest is in the development of site responsive work that lies in the challenge of rendering a site with new meaning or heightening what is already there; in creating a gesture that transforms a public space into a personal experience; in creating a work that instils a sense of place. Scale, acknowledgement of the viewer, a harmonious relationship of the built with the natural are some of her concerns.