Nelly MironchuckLe jardin de ma mère

In partnership with l'École des arts visuels et médiatiques of UQAM

As part of a new media creation grant highlighting the quality of a project envisioned at the beginning of an artistic career by a graduate student from the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual and Media Arts at UQAM, OBORO welcomes Nelly Mironchuck for a production residency. The artist will develop the work Le jardin de ma mère (My Mother’s Garden), a continuation of her recent photographic and video project La rosée (2024). 

Through careful harvesting and documentation of a garden, this new production seeks to explore the transformative exchanges that unfold within this domesticated natural cycle. More broadly, the project examines ecological issues. Plants, insects, the environment, and humans interact, influence, and nourish one another. What occurs within this interconnection? Nelly Mironchuck conceives the garden as a biodiverse space that fosters aesthetic contemplation, relationship-building, reflection, and care. The artist acts both as an observer and a participant; she plans, sows, plants, weeds, and harvests this plot of land located at her mother’s home in Saint-Lin–Laurentides. During her residency at OBORO, she will focus on the post-production of the visual and sound documentation, which will later take the form of a multidisciplinary immersive installation.