Programming
ROSELINE LAMBERT
Raciner
Roseline Lambert presents twelve plants rooted in the Sainte-Cunégonde park. These words of plants and trees are translated into several languages to testify to the human sounds that these plants have heard during their vegetal reign.
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"Raciner" means to take root. I present to you on this luminous panel twelve plants rooted in the Sainte-Cunégonde park. These words of plants and trees are translated into several languages to testify to the human sounds that these plants have heard during their vegetal reign. On this obsolescent lighthouse of our capitalist modernity, I publicize their names to remind us of the vegetal dimension of our urban roots. I thus illuminate with this yellow light, a network of linguistic roots that still resonates. The names of these plants are translated into French and English to speak our common languages, but also into Latin to testify to our botanical classification, then into native languages, Kanyen'kéha, Mi'kmaq and Nehlueun, as well as into various languages heard by these plants in more recent times, such as Mandarin, German, Swahili, Polish, Haitian Creole, Yiddish, Arabic, Laotian.
My literary process is currently driven by two beliefs. First, even if writing is a silent gesture, it is always a sustained conversation with others. And also, urgently, I believe that literature has a crucial role to play now: that of imagining how to decentralize the human from its dominant position in our ecosystem.
Roseline Lambert
Roseline Lambert is a poet and anthropologist. She has published two collections of poetry with Poètes de brousse, Les couleurs accidentelles in 2018 and Clinique in 2016.She is currently completing a doctorate in the anthropology of poetry at Concordia University. During the past year, she resided in Norway to do a research and poetry project on anxiety and the effects of light. She won the Félix-Antoine-Savard poetry prize in 2017.
