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art in nature
L’Effet de Serre
[The Greenhouse Effect]
2006
As part of Journées de la culture and the 2006 Symposium at Essarts Sculpture Park, in Saint-Pie-de Guire, Quebec, Dominique Laquerre invited visitors to have their picture taken.
The artist had set up a small outdoor studio. She asked visitors to express how they felt toward greenhouse gas issues and atmospheric pollution. Visitors took the photo shoot seriously and participated enthusiastically.
Many of these photographs have been printed in transparency on the sides of a wood and acrylic structure reminiscent of a little house. That greenhouse set in the heart of the forest is a human-size sculpture that can be seen from outside. Visitors can also step inside the greenhouse, where they will feel all those expressive eyes converging on them.
The Greenhouse Effect is a place where one can tune out the outside world and think, take cover, or watch the shifting images the light, trees, and printed pictures create together. Through these representations of the human world, the surrounding nature appears in filigree.
Translated by François Couture
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