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.
Workshops open to everyone and hosted by the artist: Thursday, March 26, Thursday, April 9, Saturday, April 18, and Thursday, April 23, 2026. More information to come.
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.
Workshops facilitated by the artist:
— Archiving the Sensory · Thursday, March 26, from 6 to 9 PM
— Cooking Workshop · Thursday, April 16, 2026, from 6 to 9 PM (FULL)
— Ceromancy · Saturday, April 18, 2026, from 3 to 6 PM
— Sensory Exploration · Thursday, April 23, 2026, from 6 to 9 PM
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.
Writers’ Club —
two islands. a river.
Exhibition text by annik st-arnaud — Written on March 24, 2026.
an assemblage, porous landscapes
river-bodies. the tides
a viscous softness. oozing surfaces. a dampness
identities with transient temporalities
the distance between here and there is blurred
we shift from one state to another
superimposition
finding ourselves in a place that is unknown to us
but which our body recognises
which awakens all our senses.
land-bodies. a coexistence
linking the materiality of a place to the bodies that form and decompose within it
a somatic ecosystem in all its sensory fluidity
freeing oneself from material and relational hierarchies
one. two. three. alone. together.
a collection, fragments of ourselves
hybrid amalgams – sedimenting an exchange – crystallising a presence.
shore-bodies. marsh-bodies. resting
settling there. anchoring ourselves in the living
between sand and rock. mud. between our fingers
the water keeps flowing
this net cannot contain our queer bodies
our fluid identities slip through the mesh
we occupy the liminal space between fresh and salt water
sometimes tangible, sometimes invisible
currents
which places us in relation to one another. two shores
there is a thirst. an end.
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