Live from the Studio with Clelia Coussonnet

Join the 2022 France/Canada Curatorial Residency Program awardee, Clelia Coussonnet, to learn what she has been up to through her time at Griffin!

Clelia Coussonnet is an independent curator, researcher, editor and writer. She is interested in how visual cultures address political, social and spiritual issues in different, or complementary, ways to other disciplines. Her research revolves around botanical politics and power structures, investigating political imprints on plants, circulation and resilience. As a ramification, she dives into riverine and marine environments considering liquidity, toxicity and contamination. In Vancouver, she will pursue her research, exploring how the colonial history of Canada has made use of plants to assert power over territories, considering the meanders of the city's waterways and aqueous reserves, and listening to the legacies and murmurs that lie in the earth and sediments.