Fernande Forest

Born in Bonaventure in the Gaspé Peninsula, Fernande Forest lives in Rimouski in the Lower St. Lawrence region, where she has been practicing visual arts for over 30 years. Her research focuses on living things, mainly the plants she encounters in her everyday environment. Since her early days in photography, she has used a scanner as a macro camera, which recently led her to scientific microscopy. A graphic designer by training, she completed a graduate course in artistic practice studies.

She has held numerous solo and group exhibitions in Canada, France, and Poland. She has participated in symposiums and in situ creative events such as the Rencontre photographique du Kamouraska. A recipient of grants from the CALQ and the CAC, she also creates works as part of the policy of integrating art into architecture.

Her photographic practice creates connections between our relationship with plants, science, and our humanity by revealing reality and magnifying it. In her representations, she seeks to bring out, in a tangible way, the vital force that we all share. The force that drives all living organisms to flourish and evolve through the combinations, risks, and renewals that encounters bring about.