Seibi Watanabe De nature éphémère
calligraphie : Suiha Hiroko Okata
Panel discussion presented at La Centrale, with Thérèse Chabot, Helen Sebelius, Laura-Keir Vickerson, Seibi Watanabe and Lorraine Simms.
Concurrent to the presentation of Seibi Watanabe’s ikebana work at OBORO and the exhibition Le Jardin manifeste at La Centrale, the two centres will present a panel discussion entitled De nature éphémère. The panelists, consisting of Thérèse Chabot, Helen Sebelius, Laura-Keir Vickerson and Seibi Watanabe, are artists who use plants or images of plants in their practice. Lorraine Simms, curator for Le Jardin manifeste, will act as moderator.
Following a short presentation of their work, the artists will discuss the relationships between art and botany and the specificity of their own practices with respect to that theme. They will also address the ephemeral nature of installations produced for a specific space and time and therefore doomed to disappearance.
calligraphie : Suiha Hiroko Okata
Seibi Watanabe is a Montreal artist of Japanese origin. Fifty years after her discovery of ikebana (traditional Japanese floral arrangement), her passion for this art ha not diminished. She belongs to the Sogetsu School, founded in 1926 by the ikebana master Sofu Teshigahara.
