Gathered under the title: D'une nature temporelle, the works of Lorraine Simms question the traditional mind/body opposition. Bringing the dichotomous terms together in order to see a new meaning emerges; revisiting our relationship with nature and culture, no longer as two opposites but in an uncertain and shifting tangle of their own limits. The series of paintings presented by the artist are a combination of painted elements representing sometimes trees and human prostheses, sometimes other trees and the first names of female painters. This coupling acts in the space of the painting as a process of accumulation of information. The natural rubs shoulders with the artificial, the cultural is superimposed on the natural, causing metaphorical shifts from one to the other. Under the mode of metonymy, Lorraine Simms' work, beyond the dualism it suggests, opens up to uncertainties of a temporal nature, past and future. The artist will be present on Saturday 4 and 11 November.

—Translated from a text by Manon LÉVESQUE