Having long sought to reveal the structure and landform of landscapes, Pierre Fauteux now concentrates on their forms and surfaces. With an eye to abstraction, he distils the landscape down to its geometric underpinnings. Intermittent planes and grey tones borrowed from the corner shapes of our house walls converse with vast vegetal expanses, with an ironic nod to the lockdown which left some of us more isolated than ever from the living environment. The discourse between nature’s complex depths and flat architectural surfaces echoes photography’s inexorable reduction and transposition of the lived and natural world’s beauty into two dimensions.

Origami of landscape in seeking its essence