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Emile Algue

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P. Polycephalum [fr] (english in comments)

Graffitis cultivés avec des blobs.

Je suis excité de partager ce projet parce que c'est mon projet le plus original et unique à date. Il s'agit d'un acte de co-creation avec un organisme non-humain qui ouvre des portes sur une pratique esthetique inédite. Un monde d'interconnection, un dialogue.

Cet été, j'ai participé à une exposition speciale à la gallerie @superchiefgalleryla organisée par @operationunder . L'idée c'etait de réunir plein de graffeurs qui peignent dans les drains pour une exposition en surface. J'experimentais deja avec les blobs quand j'ai été invité faque ca faisait du sens d'utiliser cette nouvelles technique en devellopement pour le projet; des vrais graffitis organiques pour le show de graffitis de drain à LA, la mecque du graffiti wildstyle!

Faire pousser des oeuvres d'arts avec des organismes surprenants comme les myxomycetes m'a appris beaucoup sur le travail collaboratif en general mais aussi a propos de nos relations avec le monde naturel, sois comme quelque chose que l'on tente de controler ou plutot quelques chose avec lequel on grandis.

Il y aurait enormement de chose a dire sur les myxomycetes mais je vais garder ca pour plus tard. Ya un zine qui s'en viens, j'attend juste apres la resolution de la greve de poste canada (pouvoir aux travailleurs✊). taken in Superchief Gallery L.A. by @algueux

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2 years ago

Graffiti 100% à base de plante!

Jai été invité a Art sauvage, un evenement de landart, et j'en ai profité pour relever un defi et utiliser seulement des materiaux naturels ramassés autour. Avant, j'attachais tout mes branches avec du fil de pêche mais, maintenant, j'ai appris a tresser des fibres naturelles pi cest vraiment satisfaisant. Cest pas mal autant solide, plus beau pi juste vraiment plus nice conceptuellement.

Utiliser les fil de peche ca brisais un peu la magie parce que je pouvais pas laisser les pieces la. Cest dla marde de laisser plein de fil de peche dans l'environnement faque je defaisais tout le temps toute apres avoir pris mes photos mais la, maintenant que j'ai appris a faire ma corde, je vais etre bin plus a l'aise de les laisser à des places! Un monde de possibilités!

Merci a @emile_du_terroir et @jardinsdevictoria pour l'opportunité. Vraiment trippant de vous rencontrer, une mechante belle place avec des beaux projets!

Merci @chrisdufour aussi pour m'avoir appris a tresser les plantes, excellente technique! Itou son art est full inspirant faque aller checker ca.

100% plant based graffiti!

I got invited to Art sauvage, a land art show, and took the opportunity to challenge myself and use only raw localy harvested materials. I used to tie everything up with fishing line but now i learned to weave rope and strings out of raw fiber and its really satisfying! Its pretty much as strong, more beautiful and just way greater conceptually.

Using fishing line was kindoff breaking the magic too because i couldnt leave it in situ. Its shitty to just leave a bunch of fishing line in the environnement so i was just dismantling every piece after the photos but now that i have learned to make rope ill be more at ease with leaving them in places! A world of possibilities!

Thanks @emile_du_terroir and @jardinsdevictoria for the invitation! A really inspiring place with many projects!

Thanks @chrisdufour for teaching me how to weave plants! Excellent technique! Very inspiring artist with a beautiful vision too, go check it out!

#landartgraffiti #postgraffiti #landart #landartist #landartphotography by @algueux

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2 years ago

Cycle

Ive had the idea of a "metal" graffiti in real branches for a while but its only when @lost_too_see_ and @l.coats_ invited me to participate in an exciting clandestine sculpture show that i decided to go for it. The show was in Camp Louis Routh, an abandoned juvenile detention center near Los Angeles where the youth were also employed as forest firefighters.

Ideally i would have went to the spot and find inspiration there but that summer i was up in the yukon and couldnt make it in time. There was one obvious connection between those places though; the spot was a forest firefighter training center and both yukon and california were dealing with severe forest fires at that time. I decided to channel that into an in situ piece in the yukon and have the photo printed. The location would be central in the idea, i would do it in a burnt forest.

As i was getting close to the area i had in mind, i got stoped on the highway. The fire department was warning peoples of a new active forest fire nearby... They told me it was ok where i was planning to go since a river was supposed to act as a barrier from the fire. I would be right on the edge of the evacuation zone though, without any cellphone network to keep track of it so i still had to be careful. I would only have my own senses to notice the signs of a worsening situation... It wasnt reassuring but at least i was aware of the situation.

I arrived in the burn and started looking for a good site to start building but it was quite different from what i had envisioned. It was really overgrown, way more than i thought. I ended up walking hours and hours looking for the perfect spot to materialize my idealized vision of a landart piece in a burnt desert but I guess i had underestimated how, in reality, a burnt forest regrow very fast and everywhere around was lush green.

I was walking around feeling rushed by the active fire presence looming around the corner. It wasnt working, my mind was dispersed, i was thinking; wtf am i even doing here? There is a fire nearby and im just here wandering next to it, breathing smoke... for an art idea...

Continued in comment taken in Yukon Territory by @algueux

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2 years ago

mag.lc et Emile Algue, Myxo-gobelets, 2026
Faïence et physarum polycephalum
3 oz

Ce projet met en scène la rencontre d’un myxomycète et d’un objet de céramique; deux matérialités qui existent dans un état instable, entre fluidité et solidification. Le myxomycète et l’argile ont leur propre agentivité : ils imposent leurs rythmes, leurs résistances et leurs surprises.

Contact pour achat: @mag.lc / @algueux by @algueux

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9 days ago

Certains prototypes de cette collaboration avec @algueux seront présentés du 3 au 25 octobre au centre d’art Jardins Racine !!

Merciiiiiiii à @phildbarrette et à @jardinsracine pour l’invitation ♡
@Valérieblaize pour la technique d’impression sur céramique ;-)
Piiiiiiiiiiis, remerciement full spécial à @leoniealain pis son four, hehe.

+ sur le projet : maglc.ca/myxo-gobelets by @algueux

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19 days ago

Slime escape

Double piece pour @canettes.deruelle
Merci pour tout, vous etes les meilleurs taken in Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie by @algueux

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a month ago

Physarum polycephalum + faïence
Collaboration avec @algueux
Présentée à @galerie_mold

Crédits pour la première et dernière image; Gabriel Beauvais. by @algueux

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a month ago

Graffiti avec @densology et @proudcolorblind taken in Ortie by @algueux

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2 months ago

Slime summer taken in Slime World by @algueux

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2 months ago

Sanctum

Absolutely beautiful expo @galerie_mold last weekend. Loved the unity of the whole show, everyone brought different textures and materials but all the pieces were visually cohesive. Magnifique.

Thanks to the artists, commissary, friends and everyone who showed up.

First photo by @simonjohnsdesign taken in Montreal, Canada by @algueux

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5 months ago

[Bioliminal] @algueux

Passagers.
Passengers.

Emile Algue. Genevieve Grenier. Jacqueline Beaumont. Jean-Michel Gadoua. L.L.Y. Atelier. Olivier Bonnard. Philippe St-Denis. Rachel Bussin. Simon Johns. Sophie Murphy.

30 avril. 12h - 18h
1er mai. 12h - 22h (vernissage 17h-22h)
WIP 3487 Saint- Laurent Montréal, QC by @algueux

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6 months ago

Craterium minutum

A remarkable species of myxomycete i hope to encounter one day.

~20 000x magnification

I wrote 2000x on the wall but it is a miscalculation. The real size of these sporangia is around 1mm. by @algueux

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8 months ago