Our collaborative work investigates how artistic transformative encounters, wherein underlying, unifying motifs evoke horror and frailty, also speak to common humaneness and solidarities. It is located at multiple intersections related to the Anthropocene and seeks to explore the blending of material and semiotic elements that participate in expanding boundaries between the subject and its environment. 

The helmet. first used by Leblanc in 2018, has strong cultural connotation related to science fiction and technology. The collaborative work for Momenta uses this object as a starting point and is currently being casted in ceramic. Ceramic being an organic material that is both solid yet fragile creates a strong dichotomy supporting how we are contextualizing it as a metaphor of humankind’s blind faith in technology and the ways it has guided its devastating global economic practices.  By transforming the ceramic casting, Provost-Chartrand will be expanding the object’s creative iterative life cycle, changing it into new terrestrial mutations expanding our social and cultural imaginary. 

The new objects will be conflated with elderly bodies draped in clinical clothing and photographed in both fabricated and constructed landscapes. The resulting holobiont will evolve, interact, and create transmogrified ecological units, 
speculative fabulations where becomings are encouraged and celebrated.