Marie-Renée Bourget-Harvey

Lexicon of the Living

Eco-design

Public presentation: Friday 21 March 2025, 5:00 PM

DesPrés — 57 Principale Nord Street, Sutton, QC

Public presentation

“I dare to believe that we need a new language, a new tongue, new gestures, and new thoughts to enter into a relationship with the living, with what surrounds us, supports us, uplifts us, and inhabits us.
Are the available words enough? Must we create others, let them come to life within us? This quest is not linear, and it is not solitary. It is intimate, certainly, but it is tied to the collective, to the community, and to the territory.”

During her presentation, she invited the public to exchange words, images, and sounds, seeking to move toward the creation of an arborescent and multiform lexicon of the living, crafted in co-creation with the human and the more-than-human.

Biography

Marie-Renée Bourget Harvey is fascinated and moved by humans, the arts, and the territory.
A multidisciplinary artist, she develops an atypical approach between a scientific spirit and creative freedom, where reflections, words, actions, and their impacts are finely interlaced.

Insatiably curious and hypersensitive to the land that welcomes her, she seeks to create internal and external bridges in order to rethink our ways of creating and to bring out more meaning and coherence in everyday life. She constantly seeks accuracy and cohesion in creation and is driven by the desire to breathe poetry into the very heart of the everyday.

Approach

“How can I give back to the earth? How can I create, or rather co-create, with the territory, with the humans and the more-than-humans who inhabit it? How can my practice, my life in its entirety, be grounded in reciprocity?
These reflections inhabit me, obsess me, guide me. They unfold through concrete actions, certainly, but they draw their roots from the heart of the internal and external reflections and discourses that inhabit us and that we tell ourselves on a loop. Everything is creation and everything is alive, including the words we use, consciously or not.
I dare to believe that we need a new language, a new tongue, new gestures, and new thoughts to enter into a relationship with the living, with what surrounds us, supports us, uplifts us, and inhabits us.
Are the available words enough? Must we create others, let them come to life within us? This quest is not linear, and it is not solitary. It is intimate, certainly, but it is tied to the collective, to the community, and to the territory.”