For the last ten years, Maryse Goudreau has turned her attention to the beluga by consecrating an archive of work to the animal. Committed to accompanying the beluga during its slow decline over a period of at least twenty years, the Gaspesian artist has created a series of photographic, sound, literary and sculptural works that cast an empathic gaze on the species, a sentinel of climate change in the North. At the invitation of curator Noémie Fortin, she revisits this corpus with the eyes of a child to create immersive works where birth and extinction coexist, drawing on her lifelong love for the animal to feel her way through a mixture of hope and mourning.

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