The artistic practice of Nadia Loria Legris questions our relationship with other life forms and the environment. A multidisciplinary artist, she uses unwanted or discarded plants and vegetable matter of the kind thrown away by the average household (peelings, the non-edible parts of greens, compost, weeds) – as raw material for her compositions. Through photographs, sculptures, sketches, digital techniques and relational practises, she explores our limited resources, the fragility of living things and our relationship with the ecosystem. Her creative process focuses on the passage of time, decay and hybridity.

The exhibition Vert pomme, jaune citron, rose sureau, is a collection of still lifes showing how the passage of time causes organic matter to decay.  Nadia Loria Legris creates her works of art from apple cores and a variety of dried peelings and she designs compositions on paper with vegetable inks extracted from plants that she gathers herself. The drawings, digital prints and installations that form the Vert pomme, jaune citron, rose sureau exhibition have a deeper meaning beyond simply exploring the artistic potential of organic matter. Through her artwork, Legris invites the viewer to reflect on how our modern lifestyles affect the environment.

Artist Nadia Loria Legris is originally from Montreal but she now lives in Sherbrooke. She holds a bachelor’s degree (BA) in French studies and a graduate diploma in contemporary art from the Université de Sherbrooke (UdS). Legris has organized a number of exhibitions, art interventions and cultural  mediations. Her work has been shown at the Maison des arts et de la culture de Brompton (Sherbrooke), at Regart centre d’artistes en art actuel (Lévis) and at the Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke fine arts museum (Sherbrooke) during the Biennale des artistes des Cantons-de-l’Est.