With the installations displayed at Les Jardins de Métis, at the gates of the Canadian region of Gaspésie, the International Garden Festival presents itself as a laboratory of innovation and a giant outdoor playground for the creators involved. Architects, landscape architects, visual artists and designers have been invited to broaden the garden's design horizons and reinvent the space available along the Saint Lawrence River, creating one of the most important contemporary gardening festivals in North America.
The métisages of the International Garden Festival 2020
In Canada, this year’s annual contemporary gardening event is inspired by the theme of crossbreeding, hybridization of practices, plants or materials.
Photo Jean-Christophe Lemay
Photo Jean-Christophe Lemay
Photo Martin Bond
Photo Jean-Christophe Lemay
Photo Jean-Christophe Lemay
Photo Martin Bond
Photo Jean-Christophe Lemay
Photo Martin Bond
Photo Martin Bond
Photo Jean-Christophe Lemay
Photo Jean-Christophe Lemay
Photo François Ozan - Icône
Photo François Ozan - Icône
Photo Joanne Lacoste
Photo Martin Bond
Photo Martin Bond
Photo Nathalie St-Pierre
Photo Nathalie St-Pierre
Photo Martin Bond
Photo Martin Bond
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- La redazione di Domus
- 30 September 2020
For this particular twenty-first edition, the Festival team has built the imagined métissages (crossings), the theme of this year, given the impossibility for the five teams – winners of an international call for proposals – to personally prepare the works. In the context of contemporary gardens, the hybridizations, translated differently by each participant, can be of practices (landscape architecture, garden design, architecture, visual arts, industrial design, cooking and other fields of creative expression), plants (indigenous or exotic) and materials (natural and manufactured).
- International Garden Festival 2020
- Les Jardins de Métis, Grand-Métis, Canada
- from June 22 to October 4th, 2020
Augmented Grounds, Soomeen Hahm, Jaeheon Jung, and Yumi Lee, Seoul, South Kore
Augmented Grounds, Soomeen Hahm, Jaeheon Jung, and Yumi Lee, Seoul, South Kore
Augmented Grounds, Soomeen Hahm, Jaeheon Jung, and Yumi Lee, Seoul, South Kore
Corps de résonance, Charlotte Barbeau, Leila Desrosiers, Félix Roy, and Jean-Benoit Trudelle, Montreal, Canada
Corps de résonance, Charlotte Barbeau, Leila Desrosiers, Félix Roy, and Jean-Benoit Trudelle, Montreal, Canada
ENTWINE, Waiyee Chou and Carlos Portillo, Toronto and Montreal, Canada
Forêt corallienne, Lucie Bulot and Dylan Collins, Montreal, Canada
Forêt corallienne, Lucie Bulot and Dylan Collins, Montreal, Canada
Forêt corallienne, Lucie Bulot and Dylan Collins, Montreal, Canada
(Mé)Tissages, Duc Truong, Strasbourg, France
(Mé)Tissages, Duc Truong, Strasbourg, France
Roof Line Garden, Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster, New York, USA
Roof Line Garden, Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster, New York, USA
Roof Line Garden, Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster, New York, USA
ENTWINE, Waiyee Chou and Carlos Portillo, Toronto and Montreal, Canada
ENTWINE, Waiyee Chou and Carlos Portillo, Toronto and Montreal, Canada
Ressac, Mégan Dorigo, Aurélie Martel, Audrey Sambeau and Mireille Simard, Montréal, Canada
Ressac, Mégan Dorigo, Aurélie Martel, Audrey Sambeau and Mireille Simard, Montréal, Canada
(Mé)Tissages, Duc Truong, Strasbourg, France
Corps de résonance, Charlotte Barbeau, Leila Desrosiers, Félix Roy, and Jean-Benoit Trudelle, Montreal, Canada