The Grantham Foundation for the Art and the Environment is pleased to announce its winners in creation and in research of its 2023 Call for Projects.

Creation Award — Karine Bonneval

French artist Karine Bonneval has exhibited her work in France, Germany, USA, Argentina, and Sri Lanka. The recipient of many grants and international residencies, she has collaborated in particular with the Soil & Crop Sciences and Bioacoustics departments of Cornell University, USA. 

The work that she will carry out at the Grantham Foundation will seek to answer several questions related to soil ecology. What is happening beneath our feet? What does soil tell us about our relationship to the earth? How can we rebuild ties with this complete universe about which we know very little and which escapes our perception? Using the tools of bioacoustics and chromatography, a technique similar to photographic processing, Bonneval intends to paint a visual and sonic picture of the land of the Grantham Foundation and its surroundings.

The Grantham Foundation awards $10,000 to the artist, with a one-month residency at the Foundation.

To learn more about Karine Bonneval and her artistic practice: https://www.karinebonneval.com/

Research Award — Josianne Poirier

Art historian, writer, and independent curator Josianne Poirier is also a sessional lecturer at the Université du Québec à Montréal and Université de Montréal. Her work is situated at the intersection between art, culture, and the production of space.

During her residency at the Grantham Foundation, Poirier will research the value of darkness, an endangered natural resource that is indispensable to the balance of ecosystems. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, she will try to explore representations of semi-darkness and the affective experience associated with it, as well as better understand its importance for living beings. To this end, Poirier will invite experts from different fields—artists, astronomers, biologists, art historians—to join her for a series of radio interviews that will take place at the Grantham Foundation in the year following her residency.

The Grantham Foundation awards $5,000 to the researcher, with a one-month residency at the Foundation.

Led by Johanne Lamoureux, chairholder of the Canada Research Chair in Civic Museology, the jury awarding the scholarships brought together the expertise of Jean-François Bélisle, director and chief curator of the Musée d’art de Joliette, Geneviève Chevalier, artist, curator and professor at Université Laval, Anahita Norouzi, artist and 2022 Grantham Foundation winner and Bénédicte Ramade, art historian, researcher and independent curator specializing in Anthropocene issues.