Exhibition
© Photo Credits: Fenyx Florentiny, 2025.
Wetlands — Fenyx Florentiny
Exhibition at articule from March 20 to May 2, 2026.
Opening Reception on March 20, 2026, from 5 to 8 PM.
Discursive events on March 26 and April 4, 9 & 16, 2026.
This project explores a queer and decolonial genealogy based on sensory narratives linked to the territories traversed between Martinique and Quebec. These are not mere geographical settings but sensitive territories that shape gender as much as they are shaped by it. Between these two shores circulates a porous memory, an identity in transit. Through an immersive and evolving installation combining sound, text, bioplastics, organic objects, and images, the artist offers a living laboratorium where poetry, guided meditation, and aquatic narratives intertwine. The exhibition invites visitors to engage in a physical and collective experience, where they become an integral part of a changing queer ecosystem.
The space is intended above all to be a place to be. Visitors are invited to settle in, take their time, sit at the table, craft bioplastics, read, and respond to the prompts placed throughout the space. Sensory perception and embodiment are at the heart of the experience: it is about allowing oneself to be touched, moved, to let something flow between oneself and the space. The relationship is reciprocal. The ecosystem only makes sense when it is inhabited.
And it is transforming. Over the weeks, the artist intervenes, moves things around, adds things. Workshops open to everyone allow everyone to participate in this transformation. What visitors bring changes what already exists. The laboratorium is not a metaphor: it is a method, a living space that is constructed over time and by the presence of those who pass through it.
Artist
© Photo Credits: Fenyx Florentiny taken by Maïlis Burgaud, 2022.
Fenyx Florentiny is a Martiniquais·e visual artist, currently pursuing a master's degree at UQAM. Their hybrid practice, rooted in both Martinique and Quebec, draws inspiration from queer, decolonial, and ecofeminist thought. They create sensory ecosystems where the body becomes a place of archives, rituals, and reappropriation. Assemblage, contamination, failure, and care guide their transdisciplinary research, combining performance, experimentation, sound, and video. Their practice explores margins, interstices, and borders as fertile ground for creation, transforming the exhibition space into a field of shared experience.
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