PROJECT

Rewilding of the Goddess

Travelling, migrating ephemeral installations …

These installations emerge as delicate ephemeral apparitions, each purposefully placed in environments as varied as the goddess archetypes themselves.  My goal is not merely to place objects in nature, but to create presences that linger, that haunt, that become, for however short their stay, integral to the ecosystem that holds them.

I approach each installation as an act of collaboration, of listening as much as shaping.  Each goddess is sited not to dominate, but to harmonize, to amplify what is already present.  The stories I hope to weave with the rewilding of the goddess are not only those of mythic feminity of creator, destroyer, nurturer or oracle; but also of our collective responsibility to care for the earth.

 

Whether large or small, each installation is conceived as a place of reverence.  My intention is to evoke, through gesture and the surrounding elements, a feeling of intrinsic sacredness that belongs to the land itself.

“Éveline Gallant-Fournier also expresses the spiritual realm through the use of symbolic imagery.  Her expressions of body-earth identification allude to the wisdom of matriarchal religions of prehistory, to ancient mythical and ritual content related to the cycles of life and death, and to the fertility of nature.

In an overly industrialized, urbanized, commercialized and modernized world that faces ecological crisis, the artist, as keeper of memory, revivifies the feminine archetypal unconscious.  Through her shamanic art, she demonstrates how the earth talks to and teaches us if we but listen, revealing the false dichotomy between nature and culture, and the hidden sacredness within all life.” – Terry Graff, Director/CEO and Chief Curator, Beaverbrook Art Gallery (Imagined Dialogues)

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