This workshop, led by interdisciplinary artist and occasional writer Eve Tagny, will explore possible intersections of organic materials and natural elements with still photography and moving images.
Aiming to go beyond the mere repression of nature, participants will be thinking through approaches to image making that are done in conjunction with nature. We will observe various qualities of time, states of stillness in photography versus constant transformation in nature, and bridges that can be created between the two when nature becomes an active participant.
Participants are invited to briefly introduce relevant projects in progress for a collective feedback and reflective discussion during the second portion of the workshop.
Complimentary readings and sources will be provided to participants before the workshop for further reflection.
Eve Tagny is a Tiohtià:ke/Montreal-based artist. Her practice considers gardens and disrupted landscapes as mutable sites of personal and collective memory — inscribed in dynamics of power, colonial histories and their legacies. Weaving lens-based mediums, installation, text and performance, she explores spiritual and embodied expressions of grief and resiliency, in correlation with nature’s rhythms, cycles and materiality.
Tagny has a BFA in Film Production from Concordia University and a Certificate in Journalism from University of Montreal. Recent exhibitions include Momenta Biennale, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and Centre Clark, Montreal; Cooper Cole, Gallery 44, and Franz Kaka, Toronto. She is the recipient of the Mfon grant (2018), the Plein Sud Bursary (2020) and has been shortlisted for the CAP Prize (2018), the Burtynsky Photobook Grant (2018) and the OAAG Award (2020).
