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Véronique La Perrière MNuit miroir, exhibition view, Galerie Les Trois C, Montréal, 2023.
Photo: courtesy of the artist

For over fifteen years, Véronique La Perrière M has given pride of place to invisible worlds. In every work, she elaborates a surreal universe in which humans are connected to animals and plants through the sfumato of charcoal, the precise lines of a pencil, or the blending stump of pastels. From the Gorgones series (2011) to bodies-forests to the Motif de mes rêves series (2015 –18), feathers, skin, and roots harmonize. This cosmic union, which she also developed in the video Le souffle d’Uranie (2015), represents one of her most beautiful obsessive metaphors.

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