Programming
Fiorella Boucher
Dans le ventre du Pindó
Translating an ancestral relationship with plants that is passed on to the artist, where the Pindó and his guardians express themselves, the suite of poems “Dans le ventre du Pindó” (In the belly of the Pindó) proposes a move away from the commonplaces we associate with the image “palm tree”. Pindó may write his poems in either French or Guaraní.
Pindó is a palm tree native to the region between eastern Paraguay, southern Brazil and northeastern Argentina. It is little-known among the non-native population of this region, where, as in North America, the collective imagination surrounding a palm tree is often limited to stereotypes: landscaping and beach vacations. The artist questions the role that the imaginary plays in the current ecological crisis. While the Pindó is marketed worldwide for its ornamental properties, it is threatened in the wild. With this threat, the traditional values associated with this species are also disappearing.
By translating a relationship of ancestral knowledge with the plants passed on to the artist, where the Pindó and its guardians express themselves, the suite of poems “Dans le ventre du Pindó” (In the belly of the Pindó) proposes a move away from the commonplaces associated with the image “palm tree”. Pindó may write his poems in either French or Guaraní.
Fiorella Boucher
Born in Argentina and now living in Quebec, Fiorella Boucher is a Guaraní-French-Paraguayan poet and artist. Her texts, poems and translations have been published in magazines, in book-discs, in counterpoint and in a first collection: L'abattoir c'est chez nous (Mémoire d'encrier, 2021). Her writing focuses on intergenerational filiations between women and the experience of exile.
She has presented her work at the Festival International Présence Autochtone, the Centre de la francophonie des Amériques, the Kwahiatonhk! First Nations Book Fair, Festival International de Littérature, Festival poesia de Normandie (France) and Radio-Canada, among others.