Photo credit: Leyla Majeri
During her research, which took place from April to October 2022, Leyla Majeri drew on ecofeminist approaches, the reactivation of artisanal know-how and revisited ethnobotany to design a garden of dye plants next to L’imprimerie. Accompanied by Myriam Rochon, horticulturist and dyer, founder of habi habi, which specializes in the cultivation and transformation of dye plants, the artist will conduct a series of tests to adapt different applications of the print to the resources that the garden will provide. At the end of her residency, Majeri produced an eco-responsible film essay through processes based on plant chemistry.
Biography
Leyla Majeri’s practice focuses on sculptural installation and experimental animated film, bringing them into closer attention to ecologies between matter, the imagined and the political. Her first exhibition, Harness the Sun (Arprim, Montreal, 2016), began a reflection on her gardening practice in which she explores ways of working that are rooted in the idea of commitment as both an artistic process and a mode of resistance – an approach she further develops in Don’t Blame Us If We Get Playful (Galerie de l’UQAM, 2018) and Garden Archive (CIRCA Art Actuel, Montreal, 2019). She will present a new exhibition in 2023 at the Skol Center (Montreal), then at l’Écart (Rouyn-Noranda). Leyla Majeri holds a master’s degree in Visual and Media Arts from UQAM and is a recipient of project grants from the Canada Council for the Arts.
Myriam Rochon
Horticulturist, artist and founder of habi habi